Image Stacking

Deep Sky Stacker is absolutely free. How can it help you with your astrophotography? Let’s find out. If you want to photograph deep-sky objects, you have a big challenge ahead. Take one long exposure photo, and you’ll see a lot of noise and not much signal. In other words, a pretty poor image. How do…

Astrophotography stacking is a process I do all the time, and one thing I’m finding is that my images require many hours of imaging. Recently, I took photos of the Iris Nebula, and so far, I’ve taken about 5 hours’ worth of 30 second images. Ideally, for an amazing picture of this stunning nebula, I…