Orion Nebula

wow amazing shot, sorry I missed this, would love to have a try could you provide more details on the actual stack, thanks
 
That is fantastic.
Am I right in thinking this was taken on m4/3s kit?
I’m really impressed, Astro is something I’ve been interested in trying for a while but I’ve always thought my m4/3s kit might not be as good as full frame results. But this has certainly changed my mind.
Thanks for sharing
 
eccles lad said:
wow amazing shot, sorry I missed this, would love to have a try could you provide more details on the actual stack, thanks
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You need to star align the individual images first and then stack them.

This can be done using general-purpose imaging software like Photoshop or Affinity Photo. Affinity now has some very powerful astrophotography tools built in and is definitely ahead of PS in what it can do.

The alternative is to use specialist astro software apps. Some of which are free and some not.

On the free side then Deep Sky Stacker is one I have used in the past but there are other free apps for both Windows and Mac. It's important to make sure they support ORF files though as a few do not.

The software I used for this image is called Astro Pixel Processor which is not cheap but well worth it if you do a lot of astro-photography.
You can try it out for free for 30 days but then you have to buy a licence. It is very easy to use and can do amazing things. It is constantly being updated with new features. Depending on the image it can be very compute intensive so works best with a reasonably powerful PC or Mac.

Many professional astrophotographers and some observatories use software called Pixinsight which is very expensive and has a steep learning curve.
 
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Micro-four-thirds said:
That is fantastic.
Am I right in thinking this was taken on m4/3s kit?
I’m really impressed, Astro is something I’ve been interested in trying for a while but I’ve always thought my m4/3s kit might not be as good as full frame results. But this has certainly changed my mind.
Thanks for sharing
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M4/3 kit is just as good as Full Frame for Astro images. The Starry-Sky focus capability is better than anything I am aware of on a Full Frame camera. The fact that you stack multiple images substantially reduces any noise in the final image, the noise in one image cancels the noise in another. The more images you take and stack the better.,
 
thanks for taking time with your reply David , looking forward to seeing more of your images :)
 
wornish said:
M4/3 kit is just as good as Full Frame for Astro images. The Starry-Sky focus capability is better than anything I am aware of on a Full Frame camera. The fact that you stack multiple images substantially reduces any noise in the final image, the noise in one image cancels the noise in another. The more images you take and stack the better.,
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Thanks for the info, the noise was my primary concern, I didn’t realise that the stacking would reduce the noise, I had visions of it increasing noise but at the same time adding more detail. I will certainly look into this further now.
 
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