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That one critique about my star stacking fixed my blurry photos
A guy in the comments on my Andromeda shot said my stars looked like little eggs instead of points. Turns out I was using the wrong alignment mode in DSS for my camera's sensor orientation. Has anyone else had a simple setting change totally clean up their deep sky images?
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barbarah1921d ago
Fix that alignment mode and watch your stars turn into actual points instead of little blobs. DSS has a bad habit of assuming your sensor is pointing one way when it's actually the other, and the difference is night and day once you get it right. Worth checking every time you stack a new camera or lens just to be safe.
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drew_reed6221d ago
Maybe it's just me but I don't think it's that deep. I've been stacking with DSS for like four years now and I've never once checked what the alignment mode was doing. I just pick the first option and go. My stars look fine to me. But I also shoot with a pretty basic Canon DSLR so maybe it matters more with fancier cameras. Or maybe I just don't pixel peep hard enough to notice little eggs.
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the_thea19d ago
You know what, I used to be totally in your boat on this one. I'd load up DSS, click auto, and just roll with whatever it spat out because my stars didn't look terrible to me either. But then I actually sat down and looked at the alignment mode setting after someone in a Facebook group yelled at me about it, and man, it really did make a difference once I matched it to my camera's sensor layout. The stars went from "okay" to "oh wow, that's sharp" without me doing anything else. Not saying you have to care, but if you ever get bored on a cloudy night, it's a quick thing to test and see what you've been missing.
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