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Ran into a guy at a star party in Arizona who showed me how to stack 30-second exposures on a free app.
He pulled out his phone and walked me through DeepSkyStacker right there under the dark sky, and I finally got a decent shot of the Orion Nebula without spending a dime on fancy software, anyone else discover a free tool that changed how they shoot?
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simonk987d ago
yeah DSS is legit, I've used it for years and it totally changed my game too. once you get the hang of stacking your subs and darks it's night and day difference. if you're shooting raw and doing a bunch of short exposures that free software really pulls out the detail you can't see on a single frame. biggest thing for me was realizing I needed to take calibration frames too, dark frames especially, to cut down the noise. if you're still using a phone mount or a basic dslr lens just keep your exposures real short and stack a ton of them, like 50 or 60. honestly the only paid software I use now is for post processing and that's just because I got used to it.
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Just a heads up, DSS is actually a desktop program not a phone app, so you'd need a laptop. But yeah it's totally free and works great on older machines once you get the hang of it.
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ramirez.vera7d ago
300 subs on DSS changed EVERYTHING for me. I went from blurry noise blobs to actual nebula structure in one night. Best part is it's totally free and runs on my old laptop.
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