Stacked frames on my M51 image all wrong for years

I used to just layer photos on top of each other. No alignment at all. Finally tried DeepSkyStacker last March and saw what I was missing. Who else wasted months on bad stacking before getting it right?

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colegarcia4d ago

You just stacked them on top with NO alignment at ALL?! For YEARS?! That is WILD to me. I can't even imagine what those images looked like.

viola_garcia564d ago

Yeah, "WILD to me" is exactly right. I feel you, because I did the same thing for way too long. I would just stack my photos in Photoshop without any alignment and wonder why everything looked like a blurry mess. It wasn't until a friend on a forum told me I had to use a stacking tool with alignment that I realized what I was missing. So honestly, you're not alone, and I think a lot of us just figured it out the hard way back then.

max_schmidt774d ago

Wait, you mean you're SUPPOSED to align them? @colegarcia I thought everybody just eyeballed it like I did back in the day. My old star trails looked like someone dropped the tripod halfway through haha.