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That guy on the astrophotography forum told me to skip stacking and I lost 3 nights of data
Some user named NebulaHunter42 swore up and down that single 5-minute exposures on my setup would look better than stacking 50 short ones because of my light pollution. I tried it on a clear night near Portland and all I got was a noisy mess with zero detail on M31. Has anyone else been burned by bad advice from the forums like that?
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susanh4628d ago
Oh man, I feel your pain on that "skip stacking" advice. I once had a guy in a cloudynights thread tell me to just "shoot at ISO 3200 and wave the scope around a bit" for Andromeda, and my result looked like a blurry blob of static. Lost a whole weekend of clear skies near Salem for that nonsense. Lesson learned the hard way: stacking is the only way to beat light pollution, no matter what anyone says. At least we can laugh at our own painfully noisy photos now, right?
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faith_lopez4827d ago
Shoot at ISO 3200 and wave the scope around a bit"? Holy crap, that's absurd. I mean, who gives advice like that to someone trying to get Andromeda?
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