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Always thought stacked astrophotos were overprocessed until I saw a raw single frame of Andromeda next to the final version
That comparison at the local astronomy club meeting last month showed me how much signal gets buried in noise and now I get why people spend hours stacking 200+ frames of the same target.
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olivia_bailey15d ago
Right?! That was literally me when I first saw a stacked Milky Way shot compared to the raw single frame. It was like night and day, the raw one was all grainy with just a faint blur of color, but the final version had all these crisp dust lanes and even the little Andromeda galaxy in the corner. I remember thinking "oh, so that's what all the fuss is about with the 400-something subframes." It really changed how I look at those deep space images, now I just get annoyed when I can't handle the noise in my own photos.
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norag6614d ago
@olivia_bailey I get the appeal but honestly stacking just makes my photos look overprocessed and fake.
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