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TIL my old way of stacking astrophotos was wasting hours of work
I used to just throw all my RAW frames into DeepSkyStacker and hope for the best. Last month I finally tried a proper calibration workflow with 30 darks and 20 flats for a shot of the Orion Nebula from my backyard in Tucson. The difference in noise reduction was night and day, now I actually spend the time to do it right. Anyone else find that one step that changed their whole processing game?
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butler.shane19d ago
Started doing my calibration frames at the same ISO and temperature every time, even writing the temp down in a notebook. That consistency thing, people gloss over it but it matters way more than you'd think. For my M31 shot last fall I had a cold snap roll in halfway through the night and my darks from the start didn't match the later subs at all, ruined a bunch of data. Now I always take fresh darks right after my lights, same camera temp down to the degree.
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