eva_adams68•1mo agoProlific Poster

PSA: I stacked 50 photos of the Andromeda Galaxy and it cleared up the noise a lot

My single shots from my backyard in Phoenix were always too grainy. I tried stacking fifty 30-second exposures using free software called DeepSkyStacker. Has anyone else found a good number of frames to use for galaxies?

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jessica_robinson231mo ago

Stacking fifty frames is a huge time sink for minimal gain. My best galaxy shots only needed about fifteen good exposures. The software can only do so much with bad data from a light polluted backyard.

taraanderson1mo ago

My buddy tried stacking fifty once and it looked worse than his twenty.

elliot_barnes1mo ago

Yeah, I found twenty good ones worked better than fifty bad ones too.