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Hot take: Someone told me to stop using auto-stacking in deep sky photos and I argued back, turns out they were right
A guy on a forum named Dave told me to bin my data manually instead of letting the software do it, so I tried it on my M51 shot from last October and the detail was way better, has anyone else been burned by auto-settings in their processing?
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jana_fox5019d ago
A buddy of mine had the same thing happen with his Orion nebula shots. He ran auto stacking for months and thought it looked fine until someone showed him how much detail got smoothed out in the core. He re-did it manually and the red hydrogen areas popped way more than before. Never went back to auto after that.
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riveradams19d ago
Read somewhere that the core in Orion is actually way brighter than people realize, auto stacking just averages it out to where you lose all that cool red stuff. Manual stacking is a pain but seems worth it for that level of detail.
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ryan_gibson8418d ago
Yeah @riveradams, switching to manual stacking made a huge difference for my Pleiades shots too.
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