Guides to shooting and stacking the night sky
These are the guides on Star Trail Stacker, grouped by subject: shooting and stacking star trails, cameras and lenses, the Milky Way and nightscapes, deep sky, comet and planetary work, and getting your result into an editor.
Star trails
- Your first star trail, from the night to the finished file
- Why a plain lighten stack loses your faintest trails
- Why star trails come out dotted, and the arithmetic that fixes it
- Satellites are drawing lines through your star trails
- Removing aircraft and satellite trails without losing the meteors
- What a star-trail stacker should do, and most miss
- Star trail stacking on a Mac, honestly compared
Camera and lens
The Milky Way and nightscapes
Deep sky, comet and planetary
- Registered deep-sky integration, and the eight-frame refusal
- Comet stacking, where every scientific decision is yours
- Planetary SER stacking, and the three things it insists you choose
- Calibration masters, and the groups it will not mix
- Bringing out faint structure without inventing any
- Does drizzle help your night, or just make a bigger file