One of the best tutorials I've ever seen if not the best one. I always did the stacking and proccesing WAY different and it was really pain lol, now that I know this method it's 10 times easier and I don't have to use 2 devices to complete my image, THANKS!
Great shot and nice video. I'm still new to photoshop myself, but I learnt from some other astrophotographer that when you are changing curves or levels, always do them as a new adjustment layers, that way you can just go back down through all your layers and just change that one layer again. If you're in a pic that has 50 different adjustments with things like curves, levels, you're changing RGB settings etc, it makes life a lot easier if you just need to go back and change that one setting. Plus you can turn on or off that one layer and see how it affected your picture. If you don't like that one change but it was 10 changes ago, you can also just delete that one layer. Of course you would have to label all your layers appropriately so you know what you did. Thanks again for the video.
First, welcome back! Second, this video (although I know it is geared toward stacking moon photos) absolutely saved me as I am lining up images for a solar eclipse time lapse from April 8. The PIPP program worked like a charm. Thank you!
how ironic you said on a rainy Friday afternoon, this is the first time I am watching and doing a follow along with your very informative tutorial and it is a very rainy Friday Jun 02 2023..
This is great thanks, took my first "nice' photo of the moon last night, now I've got some hear and tripod stacking many images is the next step so thanks for the tutorial.
Thank you for the tutorial! Regarding Photoshop processing, I’d recommend keeping all your adjustments in layers and saving that layered image file as your working file. So you can always go back and adjust settings if needed.
Yeah, I was going to say the same. Right-click on your image layer, "Convert to Smart Object" and then all filters you use will be editable afterwards. And the adjustments like Levels and Curves can be added as adjustment layers. Especially when you're making the curves adjustment you say "we can always change it again later" - well, actually not if you're doing it directly on the image, or at least not without losing information. I know you said you're not an PS expert and I don't want to bother you. It's just good advice to use non-destructive methods as long as you're not 100% sure you're not going to refine any of your adjustments later.
Thanks for the step by step guide both on youtube and online. Spot on. Was very easy and precise. I have never used any of three programs that you used, and you made it very easy to follow. Thank you.
Morning Nick I'm a complete novice to astronomy and astrophotography, your videos are so informative and easy to understand, many thanks, I can't wait to get started Stu
Thank you.. today because of you i came to know free software for photo stacking and also how to do it. it very simple and very effective video to learn moon photo stacking... thank you very much once again.. Namaste from India
Had it outputting a blank image at first from FIT to TIFF. Through trial and error I figured out that I needed to change Histogram Equalization options: Stretch Hist w Pt to 100% and set Black Pt to 0. Also, I'm using a full frame chip so My croping W/H needed to be significantly larger 4k-3kish. Thank you for the very informative video. I think the only reason why this wasn't covered was because my camera and OTA are significantly different that what you used for the tutorial. I'm using a full frame, one shot, cooled, color CMOS meant for DSO's and not planetary, so .001 sec exposures aren't it's forte. Well done!
After nearly 3 years I'm finally getting my telescope back out this weekend. Great tutorial. Will definitely be using your tips by the end of the weekend. Thank you.
Hello mr.Astro. I have one problem with AutoStakker. so i shot 600 RAW files,but AP grid is all over the place. i converted em all to JPG then it worked,but its just a JPG. Is there anything i can do?
Thanks for your great tutorial... I think now , even in a basic Photoshop step-by-step experience i can work and make nice pictures of the moon.. Thanks a lot...
This was such an easy video to follow !! I had all the same software so this was incredibly easy and best tutorial out there this was my first time trying this as well
Thanka for this tutorial - it helps a lot. However when I pass my images through PIPP they all turn very purple/violet. They are raw images form a DSLR. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Kamil. What option is selected under highlight recovery type in the Input Options tab? I think this setting can affect your images and make them turn purple
Hello Nick! I stacked about 100 shots mage with my 500 mm lens on D850 religiously using step by step your recommendations in this video. The resulting image is much worse than any original one. What could probably go wrong? I'm experienced in Photoshop and night photography. My goal was to improve sharpness of a final image.
@@Ked778 Thank you for reply. All images were reasonably sharp. I found that they all were slightly different in size. I don't have any explanation to this. But being different in size it was not possible for software to stack them properly. I do not use any tracking device. So, mistery still exists.
Another great video Nick and fantastic image! I was not familiar with the 2 programs you used (PIPP and Autostakkert)...I'll incorporate them into my workflow. Thanks again!
When i press start processing on PIPP it crashes after 20 secs and error say "All frames have been discarded from 0 input frames." I dont know how to fix this.
I need some help! When I try to add my raw files to PIPP I get a processing error. Corrupt data near 0x244602. I can't find anything about this error online, hoping to find an answer here!
Hi Nick, I enjoyed the video thanks. I'd be really interested to see the difference between a single image processed with the same options compared with the stacked. I take deep sky objects where of course the difference is huge but tend only to take single frames of the moon. A link to the final image would also be great, all the best. David
I have a question. I am just starting to try astrophotography. I used a 75-250mm set at 250, focused on Jupiter and was able to see some of its moons. That blew me away. My question is, would taking many images of Jupiter and its moons be able to be better by stacking them? If they would, would I use PIPP or DSS for that?
I haven't looked into it extensively yet, but from the images that I've taken I assume that I will have to take 2 sets of images at different ISO's/exposure times due to how much brighter Jupiter is than it's moons. You might want to use PIPP for Jupiter and DSS for the moons? Either way, the more images you take the better off the final quality of your image will be.
Everything seemed to work fine (it should because I followed along with the tutorial) except my final image contained grid lines that defined the alignment points. How do I prevent that?
Were these photos taken with a tracking device on the tripod? Does it matter as long as the the photo settings, zoom, and focus remain the same? I only have a ball head and fluid head on a tripod...
This is a very, very helpful video - many thanks! My results are a bit puzzling, though. After AS did the stacking, I found that the resultant image in the PIPP sub-folder was very blurred, but one or two of the individual frames still available in the AS image window (selected by moving the slider) were extremely good. How did that happen??? 🤔
Thank you your great video. I processed succesfully a 7 moon pictures take from a tripod with the 2 first programs. When I opened the AS tiif file in PS, I noticed the photos were not stack properly. Do you know which part failled? FYI, notice, after completed PIPP, when I opened the folder, I did not see on the files any green check or red X as on the video 6.10. Thank!!
Love the video, very well explained. I tried this with 325 raw files, each file was approx. 80MB and the TIFF files were about 250MB afterwards. I ended up with over 55GB of data. When I tried to stack the images the program crashed, not surprised really with all that data. I didn't crop the images so had a lot of extra unneeded info for sure. Still though, I recon I would have had a heap of data either way. Any tips I could try or am I asking to much with all that data? Using an A7Rii on a 200-600mm lens. Thanks.
HI Nick great tutorial thanks. I would have liked to see what to do with the input tabs dark files, flat files and dark flat files though. I think these would remove some structural noise from my images.
Great job Nick!! However, I wonder why didn't You try sharpening the stacked image with RegiStax 6. In my experiments no sharpening through PS gives such a results as with RegiStax 6. All in all You do great so keep up a good work!! :))
not sure anyone will see or respond... just got pointed to this video.... do you need 'usual' darks, flats, bias frames ... for lunar images ... as are recommended for deep sky etc?
Thanks for a great tutorial. I am working through a few issues. My images were larger causing me to run out of memory in Autostack. So I converted my images to monochome in PIPP, and that helped. However, my images did not align well, making for a blurry stack. I'm trying various things in both PIPP and Autostacker without much success yet. Part of the problem may be how I shot my images. As the moon moved across my viewfinder I kept shooting, then manually adjusted the fine tuning of my equatorial tripod. As a result the moon is not consistently positioned in the frame. I was hoping PIPP or AS would handle that. Any thoughts? Thank you.
if im taking photo of a young moon that doesnt have a full disc, what should I change? because it keeps lowering the quality of the photos and choosing only a few of them! thank u
PIPP wouldnt accept my .CR3 files, so i used DDR4 to convert my .CR3 files to TIFF ..... I tried to use my TIFF files in autostakkert, it takes like 500 seconds just for "buffering and image analysis" ... then the program stops working on the "reference image" step every time. Im so confused.
Great video. I am following the same exact process as you laid out but my photos all have tiny square blocks in them after running them through PIPP. When they're stacked in autostakkert, the blocks become much more apparent. It's hard to explain but it's almost like the pixels are being converted into square blocks. Any idea what is going wrong?
Wouldnt the final result be the same quality if you edited only one picture instead stacking more of them, i want to see what is the difference the stacking process makes
question: when i click start processing, in the status thing it comes up with failed with errors. anyone know how to fix that? I did the same thing yesterday and it was fine.
Hi I’m new to photoshop so I followed your tutorial but every time I open my moon image that square background behind the moon stays and changes colors as I’m editing the moon how do I keep the moon only and get rid of that annoying box behind it ?
Hi, I've tried this technique a few times and always end up with a blurred moon out of the Autostakkert. I don't take my pictures with a tracker so the moon does move between shots. Is this the reason I'm getting a blurred image?
If you crop the images down in PIPP then my assumption is that they should stack fine. I always make the image a 1200x1200 frame. The moon is always in the middle once PIPP has done its thing. If your images aren’t aligned when going into AS then I imagine that is the problem
Thanks for the video sir! What if we stack different phases of the moon...? Will there be any difference, or will it be same, as what we get while stacking full moon?
I don’t see the need for stacking moon pictures. I have the same result with 1 sub and some fine tuning in Lightroom. I do have a Nikon D5600 and a tamron 18-400mm lens. Even with my Samyang 135mm lens I got crisp picture. I do need to crop that
If you crop them in PIPP, the software should centralise the moon. Even if it doesn’t then AS will align the images when it stacks then so it should work fine
No matter how many frames are process, the output folder contains only one frame it could be 100 it could be 30 it could be 300 but there's only one frame at the end and and then I can't do anything
Hi and thanks for the great tutorial. Can you tell me what your exposure settings were for your camera. I have modified 80d and Stellarvue SV070T..but just can't get the right exp settings.
Given you have Photoshop I'm interested in why you don't simply bring all your RAW files as a stack of layers, align them, create a smart object then use median stacking to merge them into a single image? You'd keep as much of the original data in your RAW files working entirely in ProPhoto RGB 16Bit that way.
I know this is old but if memory recalls Photoshop's alignment software's nowhere near as refined... Processing 250 photos would take it longer and you'd probably see blurring.
I have taken 10 sharp RAW images (focussed in liveview 10x Canon EOS 6D Mk2) with an Altair EDF 72 and processed in PIPP and Autostakkert. I have followed your settings etc but the stacked image is nowhere near as good as a single image in the stack. Don't know where I am going wrong.
Just use lightroom to manually crop and center your moon shots. PIPP only outputs 8-bit of coloured image file. Then proceed to Autostakkert. To bring out more details, use Registax 6 for wavelet sharpening. The only problem with this workflow is when you have hundreds or maybe thousands of frames you wanna stack. It will take a long time in lightroom but quality is preserved.
@@woldsweather Yes you can but the output image isn't as good as the original. In lightroom just import the files and use crop tool, select all your images and sync the crop. If you aren't using a tracker you may need to readjust and ccenter individually. You can then export as tiff 16BIT lossless
Thanks for watching! Don't forget to check out my step-by-step guide at astroexploring.com/moon-processing-guide
special thanks for making this extra text version time saving guide
pipp is not downloable any more do uoyu have some advice
One of the best tutorials I've ever seen if not the best one. I always did the stacking and proccesing WAY different and it was really pain lol, now that I know this method it's 10 times easier and I don't have to use 2 devices to complete my image, THANKS!
Great shot and nice video. I'm still new to photoshop myself, but I learnt from some other astrophotographer that when you are changing curves or levels, always do them as a new adjustment layers, that way you can just go back down through all your layers and just change that one layer again. If you're in a pic that has 50 different adjustments with things like curves, levels, you're changing RGB settings etc, it makes life a lot easier if you just need to go back and change that one setting. Plus you can turn on or off that one layer and see how it affected your picture. If you don't like that one change but it was 10 changes ago, you can also just delete that one layer. Of course you would have to label all your layers appropriately so you know what you did. Thanks again for the video.
You kinda sound like Piximperfect TH-camr.
Just downloaded PIPP and Autostakker and had a quick go on Wednesdays moon following your process. Another good tutorial Nick, thank you.
Thank you!
First, welcome back! Second, this video (although I know it is geared toward stacking moon photos) absolutely saved me as I am lining up images for a solar eclipse time lapse from April 8. The PIPP program worked like a charm. Thank you!
Nice explanation of the process. Clear, concise, and jargon free. Thank you for producing this useful guide.
Thanks Bill, I really appreciate that.
how ironic you said on a rainy Friday afternoon, this is the first time I am watching and doing a follow along with your very informative tutorial and it is a very rainy Friday Jun 02 2023..
This is the best tutorial on how to use the software quickly.
This is great thanks, took my first "nice' photo of the moon last night, now I've got some hear and tripod stacking many images is the next step so thanks for the tutorial.
Thank you for the tutorial! Regarding Photoshop processing, I’d recommend keeping all your adjustments in layers and saving that layered image file as your working file. So you can always go back and adjust settings if needed.
Yeah, I was going to say the same. Right-click on your image layer, "Convert to Smart Object" and then all filters you use will be editable afterwards. And the adjustments like Levels and Curves can be added as adjustment layers. Especially when you're making the curves adjustment you say "we can always change it again later" - well, actually not if you're doing it directly on the image, or at least not without losing information. I know you said you're not an PS expert and I don't want to bother you. It's just good advice to use non-destructive methods as long as you're not 100% sure you're not going to refine any of your adjustments later.
Great tutorial. I've used pipp and autostakkert for this and couldn't figure out why there was no color😂 monochrome was always checked. Thanks
Thanks! Yep I’ve made that mistake 😃
@@AstroExploring What mistake?
Thanks for the step by step guide both on youtube and online. Spot on. Was very easy and precise. I have never used any of three programs that you used, and you made it very easy to follow. Thank you.
thanks a lot for this tutorial , ive never heard of PIPP or autostackert and i stack my moon/plantets footage and its sick !
Morning Nick
I'm a complete novice to astronomy and astrophotography, your videos are so informative and easy to understand, many thanks, I can't wait to get started
Stu
Thanks Stuart, I really appreciate that!
Thanks for this video, a really good intro to enhancing your stacked moonshots!
Thank you.. today because of you i came to know free software for photo stacking and also how to do it. it very simple and very effective video to learn moon photo stacking... thank you very much once again.. Namaste from India
you did the thing I think everyone that show a processing and that is to show the pre and post processing images at the start.
THANKS.
Had it outputting a blank image at first from FIT to TIFF. Through trial and error I figured out that I needed to change Histogram Equalization options: Stretch Hist w Pt to 100% and set Black Pt to 0. Also, I'm using a full frame chip so My croping W/H needed to be significantly larger 4k-3kish. Thank you for the very informative video. I think the only reason why this wasn't covered was because my camera and OTA are significantly different that what you used for the tutorial. I'm using a full frame, one shot, cooled, color CMOS meant for DSO's and not planetary, so .001 sec exposures aren't it's forte. Well done!
After nearly 3 years I'm finally getting my telescope back out this weekend. Great tutorial. Will definitely be using your tips by the end of the weekend. Thank you.
Thanks for that I learned something about image adjustment. Great explanation.
Thank you SO much, PIPP and AutoStakker!3 is wonderful tools!
At what point is the demised returns begin? Would 200 stacked images be plenty or would 500/600 images show a higher quality over a stacked 200 image?
Finally! a tutorial i can actually follow! awesome! cheers!!!
Hello mr.Astro.
I have one problem with AutoStakker.
so i shot 600 RAW files,but AP grid is all over the place.
i converted em all to JPG then it worked,but its just a JPG.
Is there anything i can do?
Thanks for your great tutorial... I think now , even in a basic Photoshop step-by-step experience i can work and make nice pictures of the moon.. Thanks a lot...
This was such an easy video to follow !! I had all the same software so this was incredibly easy and best tutorial out there this was my first time trying this as well
Thank you! Congrats on nailing it first time!
OK thanks and BTW how refreshing to hear an English voice on one of these videos and not a loud 'WHAT'S UP' !
😂😂
Most astrophotography youtubers are super laidback and chill.
Astro photoshoots are so much fun!
They certainly are!
Thanka for this tutorial - it helps a lot. However when I pass my images through PIPP they all turn very purple/violet. They are raw images form a DSLR. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Kamil. What option is selected under highlight recovery type in the Input Options tab? I think this setting can affect your images and make them turn purple
Hello Nick! I stacked about 100 shots mage with my 500 mm lens on D850 religiously using step by step your recommendations in this video. The resulting image is much worse than any original one. What could probably go wrong? I'm experienced in Photoshop and night photography. My goal was to improve sharpness of a final image.
Were any images out of focus?
@@Ked778 Thank you for reply. All images were reasonably sharp. I found that they all were slightly different in size. I don't have any explanation to this. But being different in size it was not possible for software to stack them properly. I do not use any tracking device. So, mistery still exists.
revisiting this video. thank you for sharing
i keep getting an error in pipp about the files being corupted but they work everywhere else. Does anyone know how to solve this
What a great video! Thank you for teaching me, it really really helps, you explain it very clear and not too fast nor too slow. Once again, thank you!
No problem 🙂
Excellent video, thanks!
Hello , what if moon is moving on my photos, i mean that moon is in different place on the last photo than it is on first
Another great video Nick and fantastic image! I was not familiar with the 2 programs you used (PIPP and Autostakkert)...I'll incorporate them into my workflow. Thanks again!
Thanks Michael! You just can’t beat something that’s free 😃🔭
man youre the goat hats off to you
Is this procedure limited to raw files only ie... (is it possible to bring jpegs into PIPP and output Tiffs to stack in Autostakkert?)
Solid information. You are an excellent teacher. Thanks.
When i press start processing on PIPP it crashes after 20 secs and error say "All frames have been discarded from 0 input frames." I dont know how to fix this.
I need some help! When I try to add my raw files to PIPP I get a processing error. Corrupt data near 0x244602. I can't find anything about this error online, hoping to find an answer here!
Nice video, thank you for doing tutos like this one !
No problem!
Hi Nick, I enjoyed the video thanks. I'd be really interested to see the difference between a single image processed with the same options compared with the stacked. I take deep sky objects where of course the difference is huge but tend only to take single frames of the moon. A link to the final image would also be great, all the best. David
Good point David, you’re absolutely right. I’ll post a comment once I’ve done a blog on my website, which might take a few weeks
autostakert does not display the image on the second screen,it says the file type is not recognized by SFM,it is a tiff file,whats the problem?
I have a question. I am just starting to try astrophotography. I used a 75-250mm set at 250, focused on Jupiter and was able to see some of its moons. That blew me away. My question is, would taking many images of Jupiter and its moons be able to be better by stacking them? If they would, would I use PIPP or DSS for that?
I haven't looked into it extensively yet, but from the images that I've taken I assume that I will have to take 2 sets of images at different ISO's/exposure times due to how much brighter Jupiter is than it's moons. You might want to use PIPP for Jupiter and DSS for the moons? Either way, the more images you take the better off the final quality of your image will be.
Hello! I wanted to install the program but I don’t know why it says that the site is nonexistent, how can I do?
Everything seemed to work fine (it should because I followed along with the tutorial) except my final image contained grid lines that defined the alignment points. How do I prevent that?
Having an issue where the pipp output files are pink and alot less detailed, any fix for this? They are cr2 files
Hi, I followed this step by step, but my pics turn pink the whole frame is pink. Can't understand why ? Help please.
I just took loads of photos to try this and cr3 files are not supported. How can I convert these and what shall I convert them too?
Were these photos taken with a tracking device on the tripod? Does it matter as long as the the photo settings, zoom, and focus remain the same? I only have a ball head and fluid head on a tripod...
This is a very, very helpful video - many thanks! My results are a bit puzzling, though. After AS did the stacking, I found that the resultant image in the PIPP sub-folder was very blurred, but one or two of the individual frames still available in the AS image window (selected by moving the slider) were extremely good. How did that happen??? 🤔
Thank you your great video. I processed succesfully a 7 moon pictures take from a tripod with the 2 first programs. When I opened the AS tiif file in PS, I noticed the photos were not stack properly. Do you know which part failled? FYI, notice, after completed PIPP, when I opened the folder, I did not see on the files any green check or red X as on the video 6.10. Thank!!
Really useful tutorial for a novice. What, if any, differences would you make were it not full moon?
How about using smartphone, is there any app for stacking photos?
Love the video, very well explained. I tried this with 325 raw files, each file was approx. 80MB and the TIFF files were about 250MB afterwards. I ended up with over 55GB of data. When I tried to stack the images the program crashed, not surprised really with all that data. I didn't crop the images so had a lot of extra unneeded info for sure. Still though, I recon I would have had a heap of data either way. Any tips I could try or am I asking to much with all that data? Using an A7Rii on a 200-600mm lens. Thanks.
Hi! Did you solve this? I´m doubting if buying or not the 200-600mm. and kind of desperate about seeing the results of takes like that. Thanks!
I don`t know why but after corverting to TIFF my frames are all pink. And after the Autostakkert program, they become not sharp and faded.
HI Nick great tutorial thanks. I would have liked to see what to do with the input tabs dark files, flat files and dark flat files though. I think these would remove some structural noise from my images.
Great job Nick!! However, I wonder why didn't You try sharpening the stacked image with RegiStax 6. In my experiments no sharpening through PS gives such a results as with RegiStax 6. All in all You do great so keep up a good work!! :))
awesome, this was so much help!
Thank you!
Why are my images from pipp greyscale when I unchecked convert to monochrome?
not sure anyone will see or respond... just got pointed to this video.... do you need 'usual' darks, flats, bias frames ... for lunar images ... as are recommended for deep sky etc?
Những tấm ảnh mặt trăng anh chụp trong video có sử dụng tracker không
Thanks! Very good tutorial, this was of grate help for me :)
Thanks heaps, this was really helpful!
Thanks for a great tutorial. I am working through a few issues. My images were larger causing me to run out of memory in Autostack. So I converted my images to monochome in PIPP, and that helped. However, my images did not align well, making for a blurry stack. I'm trying various things in both PIPP and Autostacker without much success yet. Part of the problem may be how I shot my images. As the moon moved across my viewfinder I kept shooting, then manually adjusted the fine tuning of my equatorial tripod. As a result the moon is not consistently positioned in the frame. I was hoping PIPP or AS would handle that. Any thoughts? Thank you.
Thank you. You’re an inspiration!
Hi, where is the link to how you captured your moon shots?
my auto stakkert has alignment points section freezed, how to place ap grid ?
if im taking photo of a young moon that doesnt have a full disc, what should I change? because it keeps lowering the quality of the photos and choosing only a few of them!
thank u
hello sir in ur folder it shows a tick mark and a cross fo images...i dont have it😕
Sir I stack 40 pictures of moon and picture is clear but blue and yellow circles are being formed around the moon.
I am new to astrophotography, and I never stacked the moon. I will try it. Thx.
PIPP wouldnt accept my .CR3 files, so i used DDR4 to convert my .CR3 files to TIFF ..... I tried to use my TIFF files in autostakkert, it takes like 500 seconds just for "buffering and image analysis" ... then the program stops working on the "reference image" step every time. Im so confused.
Awesome tutorial, mate! Really helpful!
Hello Please tell me if you can use images taken from mobile in this
I didnt take my pictures with a tripod will this method work for me?
Great video. I am following the same exact process as you laid out but my photos all have tiny square blocks in them after running them through PIPP. When they're stacked in autostakkert, the blocks become much more apparent. It's hard to explain but it's almost like the pixels are being converted into square blocks. Any idea what is going wrong?
Wouldnt the final result be the same quality if you edited only one picture instead stacking more of them, i want to see what is the difference the stacking process makes
Please could you do a colour tutorial.
Thanks
Great video Nick, quick question: how did you ensure your individual picture is tack sharp with the telescope?
I used the live view on the DSLR and use the focuser on the telescope to make sure it was sharp
question: when i click start processing, in the status thing it comes up with failed with errors. anyone know how to fix that? I did the same thing yesterday and it was fine.
Can you do a tutorial on have to make my neighbours turn their f&£%@&g stupid garden lights off?
so those are just normal images taken in burst ?...
Hi I’m new to photoshop so I followed your tutorial but every time I open my moon image that square background behind the moon stays and changes colors as I’m editing the moon how do I keep the moon only and get rid of that annoying box behind it ?
Hi, I've tried this technique a few times and always end up with a blurred moon out of the Autostakkert. I don't take my pictures with a tracker so the moon does move between shots. Is this the reason I'm getting a blurred image?
If you crop the images down in PIPP then my assumption is that they should stack fine. I always make the image a 1200x1200 frame. The moon is always in the middle once PIPP has done its thing. If your images aren’t aligned when going into AS then I imagine that is the problem
Great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
No problem!
Fantastic video and explanation!!
Thank you!
Thanks for the video sir!
What if we stack different phases of the moon...? Will there be any difference, or will it be same, as what we get while stacking full moon?
How to you get the tick and cross on the photos and what are they for?
I don’t see the need for stacking moon pictures. I have the same result with 1 sub and some fine tuning in Lightroom.
I do have a Nikon D5600 and a tamron 18-400mm lens. Even with my Samyang 135mm lens I got crisp picture. I do need to crop that
Thank you for sharing!! Great help!!
Is it possible to stack moon photos even its not aligned properly ?
If you crop them in PIPP, the software should centralise the moon. Even if it doesn’t then AS will align the images when it stacks then so it should work fine
No matter how many frames are process, the output folder contains only one frame it could be 100 it could be 30 it could be 300 but there's only one frame at the end and and then I can't do anything
Great video. Id LOVE to see a video on how to do a color moon!!!!
I processed my first colour moon yesterday. Once I’ve got the process nailed down I’ll do a video
Can't find PIPP. Anyone have a link?
Hi and thanks for the great tutorial. Can you tell me what your exposure settings were for your camera. I have modified 80d and Stellarvue SV070T..but just can't get the right exp settings.
As a general starting point, try ISO100 - f/11 - 1/100. Those work pretty well for me, with an old Canon T3i...
Given you have Photoshop I'm interested in why you don't simply bring all your RAW files as a stack of layers, align them, create a smart object then use median stacking to merge them into a single image? You'd keep as much of the original data in your RAW files working entirely in ProPhoto RGB 16Bit that way.
Because honestly that’s a level above my Photoshop knowledge! I’m definitely keen to try it out though to do a comparison
@@AstroExploring You'd have no problems learning it, to be honest your current workflow is more complex in my opinion. Enjoy 😉
I know this is old but if memory recalls Photoshop's alignment software's nowhere near as refined... Processing 250 photos would take it longer and you'd probably see blurring.
Seeing your photo its kinda funny that I somehow ended up doing this around the same time giving me the same phase of the moon
I have taken 10 sharp RAW images (focussed in liveview 10x Canon EOS 6D Mk2) with an Altair EDF 72 and processed in PIPP and Autostakkert. I have followed your settings etc but the stacked image is nowhere near as good as a single image in the stack. Don't know where I am going wrong.
Just use lightroom to manually crop and center your moon shots. PIPP only outputs 8-bit of coloured image file. Then proceed to Autostakkert. To bring out more details, use Registax 6 for wavelet sharpening. The only problem with this workflow is when you have hundreds or maybe thousands of frames you wanna stack. It will take a long time in lightroom but quality is preserved.
@@s3k1m I though you could crop and centre in PIPP? (I wouldn't know how to do it in Lightroom).
@@woldsweather Yes you can but the output image isn't as good as the original. In lightroom just import the files and use crop tool, select all your images and sync the crop. If you aren't using a tracker you may need to readjust and ccenter individually. You can then export as tiff 16BIT lossless