Stacking photos on different night DSLR

[batema (Mark)]

I plan on going out tonight and continue on M20 after getting 1 hour and 40 min last night at about 9 degrees C but tonight the temp will be about 6 degrees. When I take my darks tonight do I just put them all into Deep Sky Stacker for both nights and stack them.

Mark

[Octane (Humayun)]

You could.

But, it would be even better to process the first lot separately, then, the second lot, and so on.

Night one lights - night one calibration (darks, flat lights/darks) = night one reduced lights.
Night two lights - night two calibration (darks, flat lights/darks) = night two reduced lights.

Then, combine reduced lights using your favourite algorithm (kappa-sigma, SD clip, etc.)

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[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Personally, I'd just chuck all the darks into the mix. It's not a great difference in temperature.
I take new flats every night and use both sets.

[TheDecepticon]

I thought Deep Sky Stacker would/could stack in groups then combine the groups at the end for your fianl image. So group 1 would be your fist night with calibration frames, group 2 for the second night, etc. Please correct me if I am wrong, it has been a long time since I used DSS.