This is my third attempt at the andromeda galaxy untracked and at bortle 8, while better than the previous two attempts Im not too proud of it but given that I spent a lot of time and effort on this I figured I’d post it anyway.
Acquisition details
2060 x 4s subs over the course of 3 nights at f/2.8 and iso 800 with a canon nifty fifty lens and a canon EOS 7D
Weather conditions
All theee nights were moonless and clear with no clouds but there was a bit of smog and haze
Stacked 2060 out of 2217 subs in deepskystacker using default settings
Colour calibration, background extraction and crop in Siril
Final touches in adobe lightroom
by Allah_Gaming1
3 Comments
Not a bad start! Siril is great for colour calibration, cropping and background extraction but I also recommend afterward that you use GraXpert for denoising and then GIMP for manual stretching, I’ve found it works really well in that order!
You stacked 93% of the best images you took, that’s too much, and I think that’s why there is lot of noise in your image try, 10% or 20% or 30%. You would get a better result
How did you pull this off untracked?