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The eclipse

15 stacked 8 second exposures through 8inch reflector at iso 400.
Then pre eclipse moon was a 1/320 shutter speed iso 100.
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Old 01-02-2018, 04:39 AM
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That's a beauty David! Lots of background stars.
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Old 01-02-2018, 07:14 AM
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Very nice and sharp, like the colour and background stars too. Hoped to do something similar, but the weather had other ideas
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Very nice David a wonderful sight
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That's a beauty.
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Nice pic David,
How did you stack them?
I took a few Moon shots with my DSLR and telephoto but
no matter what I do I can't get them to stack.
I tried deep sky stacker - hopeless - then
I downloaded Registax 6 but it just couldn't stack properly -
possibly the worst software in the world.

I've stacked plenty of deep sky photos successfully with DSS
but never managed to get any other program to work.

Edit - I did manage did stack some pics in the end using Photoshop
but as it was only a telephoto on a DSLR it's no where near as good as yours.
I used the feature here:
https://digital-photography-school.c...hoto-stacking/

You did well.

cheers
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Old 01-02-2018, 09:30 PM
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15 stacked 8 second exposures through 8inch reflector at iso 400.
Then pre eclipse moon was a 1/320 shutter speed iso 100.
Lovely work David ; some people had a visual treat using Binos, with the Beehive M44 only about 3° away from the total Lunar Eclipse .

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Old 02-02-2018, 11:14 PM
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Nice pic David,
How did you stack them?
I took a few Moon shots with my DSLR and telephoto but
no matter what I do I can't get them to stack.
I tried deep sky stacker - hopeless - then
I downloaded Registax 6 but it just couldn't stack properly -
possibly the worst software in the world.

I've stacked plenty of deep sky photos successfully with DSS
but never managed to get any other program to work.

Edit - I did manage did stack some pics in the end using Photoshop
but as it was only a telephoto on a DSLR it's no where near as good as yours.
I used the feature here:
https://digital-photography-school.c...hoto-stacking/

You did well.

cheers
Allan
Dss is no good for lunar/planetary.
I used Registax and 15 images.
I have failed in Registax before, but this time I had the mount on Lunar tracking, which meant the images were pretty close to the same place in the frame and I guess that helped with stacking.
I then used photoshop to get more stars out.
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Old 03-02-2018, 05:49 AM
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Dss is no good for lunar/planetary.
I used Registax and 15 images.
I have failed in Registax before, but this time I had the mount on Lunar tracking, which meant the images were pretty close to the same place in the frame and I guess that helped with stacking.
I then used photoshop to get more stars out.
Hi David,
In my case it was only Photoshop that would stack the images.
It was better than nothing.

I had never used these commands before:

Quote:
Files > Scripts > Load Files into Stack
Automatic Align Source Images and Create Smart Object.
Layer > Smart Objects > Stack Mode > Mean.
I think knowing that could be very handy even for
terrestrial photography.

cheers
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