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Originally Posted by Helo
Hi Cosmic & all; Just piggybacking off your post as I did my first Eta Carinae this week also. Used a 500D with a 200mm lens piggybacked on my CPC1100 (not polar aligned yet but hope to be there soon) and was able to stack them in DSS. I have had problems with DSS also in some cases but I think it has been an exposure issue and rejects them if underexposed. For objects where I had good exposures, they stacked fine as RAW files but underexposed would not stack unless I used the JPEG files I saved at the same time (very underexposed Sombrero Galaxy - being a little too ambitious  ). I am finding the processing a daunting task in Photoshop CS5, any tips? Thx. Peter |
Hi Peter,
Im by no means a subject matter expert on astrophotography and image processing. But I will say one thing to you, experiment. Thats what I have done and it may be time consuming but worth it. As for polar alignment, thats a given to get those pinpoint more cleaner images. I'm on the hunt also for tutorials on image processing with astro snaps ill pm you if I come across any good ones. Sorry I could be of any more help, im at the beginners stage to.
Well im going to call this the final image. After a few hours of playing around getting to know DSS better this is what I have now produced.