Re: [APML] First attempt at stacking - Barn door shots of Andromeda,Cassiopeia

["Stuart Heggie" <stuart.j.heggie@sympatico.ca>]

Eric, they look great! I like the one of M31 better. What f-stop are you
shooting? I think the one of Cass could be sharpened with the lens stopped
down a bit.

Stuart

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Beard" <ericzbeard@yahoo.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:49 PM
Subject: [APML] First attempt at stacking - Barn door shots of Andromeda,
Cassiopeia


> Hello all,
>
> I ended up with several decent 5 minute exposures last
> Friday night, so I decided to try my hand at stacking
> images in Photoshop.  I'm using a Mac, and as far as I
> know none of the good astro-stack applications run on
> it.  I'm working on a Java program myself for
> stacking, but it's a long way from seeing the light of
> day, so for now Photoshop will have to do.
>
> This was my first try, a shot with M31 in the middle,
> NGC 281 on the far left and M33 on the far right.
> There's still some visible overlap from the stacking
> process, but I'm pretty happy with it.
>
> http://www.honeydewphoto.com/eric/20031025/AndromedaStack.html
>
> The second attempt proved to be a bit better.  This is
> a vertical shot of Cassiopeia, with the Double Cluster
> at the very bottom of the frame.
>
> http://www.honeydewphoto.com/eric/20031025/CassStack.html
>
> Thanks Jerry for your nice website that answered my
> frantic question "Where's the *&^% AVERAGE blending
> mode?!"
>
> EZB
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