How to Stack Moon Photography

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In this tutorial I give you a full moon processing tutorial. I show you how to use PIPP to convert and crop your RAW files to TIFFs, use AutoStakkert!3 to stack your images, and use Adobe Photoshop to process your final image.
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@AstroExploring 4 года назад

Thanks for watching! Don't forget to check out my step-by-step guide at astroexploring.com/moon-processing-guide

@alchymista2 2 года назад

special thanks for making this extra text version time saving guide

@AndrewMurphy8383 8 месяцев назад

pipp is not downloable any more do uoyu have some advice

@joaquin_astro Год назад

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!

@paulmckeown5672 3 года назад

Thanks for this video, a really good intro to enhancing your stacked moonshots!

@genesmith679 Год назад

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.

@stillontheedge 3 года назад

Just downloaded PIPP and Autostakker and had a quick go on Wednesdays moon following your process. Another good tutorial Nick, thank you.

@AstroExploring 3 года назад

Thank you!

@derek_boen 3 месяца назад

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!

@michaellawler997 Год назад

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.

@billtracy8865 3 года назад

Nice explanation of the process. Clear, concise, and jargon free. Thank you for producing this useful guide.

@AstroExploring 3 года назад

Thanks Bill, I really appreciate that.

@Scrottobaggns 3 года назад

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.

@EasypediaTech 2 года назад

You kinda sound like Piximperfect RU-vidr.

@django1364 Год назад

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..

@HEXZ0R- 3 года назад

thanks a lot for this tutorial , ive never heard of PIPP or autostackert and i stack my moon/plantets footage and its sick !

@stuartgriffin4175 4 года назад

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

@AstroExploring 4 года назад

Thanks Stuart, I really appreciate that!

@mjellings Год назад

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.

@ukhtiramadhani747 3 года назад

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!

@AstroExploring 3 года назад

No problem 🙂

@MrJPVERCETTI 3 года назад

Awesome tutorial, mate! Really helpful!

@adventureswithfrodo2721 3 года назад

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.

@Tocy777isback0414 Год назад

Thank you SO much, PIPP and AutoStakker!3 is wonderful tools!

@vincebasile7532 3 года назад

Solid information. You are an excellent teacher. Thanks.

@mr.guerra5060 3 года назад

Thank you for sharing!! Great help!!

@bliskin8847 Год назад

This is the best tutorial on how to use the software quickly.

@erlendsandvoll 3 года назад

Thanks! Very good tutorial, this was of grate help for me :)

@ybandey 3 года назад

Thank you. You’re an inspiration!

@matthewstephens9681 3 года назад

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

@AstroExploring 3 года назад

Thank you! Congrats on nailing it first time!

@milan5792 4 года назад

Great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

@AstroExploring 4 года назад

No problem!

@sphaera3809 2 года назад

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.

@gordonbrinkmann 2 года назад

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.

@jotasantos4931 2 года назад

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...

@stevestone07 4 месяца назад

Finally! a tutorial i can actually follow! awesome! cheers!!!

@johnnoble7522 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for that I learned something about image adjustment. Great explanation.

@ismailcakr4261 3 года назад

Very helpful. Congrats!

@elbat_tv 4 года назад

Nice video, thank you for doing tutos like this one !

@AstroExploring 4 года назад

No problem!

@lukeybaby45 2 года назад

awesome, this was so much help! Thank you!

@UV-NIR-Thermal 4 года назад

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

@AstroExploring 4 года назад

Thanks! Yep I’ve made that mistake 😃

@nightcoretwentythree 2 года назад

@@AstroExploring What mistake?

@michaeldavis2818 4 года назад

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!

@AstroExploring 4 года назад

Thanks Michael! You just can’t beat something that’s free 😃🔭

@Bazzasphotolife 4 года назад

Fantastic video and explanation!!

@AstroExploring 4 года назад

Thank you!

@AndrewJulianPhotography 4 года назад

Astro photoshoots are so much fun!

@AstroExploring 4 года назад

They certainly are!

@KulkarnisKorner 2 года назад

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

@lachlanhempell 2 года назад

Thanks heaps, this was really helpful!

@Joshua-of2dp 2 года назад

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!

@Histree_edits1939 9 месяцев назад

man youre the goat hats off to you

@ahmedghamdi1668 4 года назад

Great tutorial

@AstroExploring 4 года назад

Thank you 🙂

@gerryboyd178 3 года назад

very helpful, cheers

@douglasfleming1 3 года назад

Very useful. Thx

@MrEyadashraf 3 года назад

Thank you very much.

@rafidworriars317 3 года назад

Thank you very much

@gingerbeardman73 3 года назад

Great video. Id LOVE to see a video on how to do a color moon!!!!

@AstroExploring 3 года назад

I processed my first colour moon yesterday. Once I’ve got the process nailed down I’ll do a video

@pdh020386 2 года назад

Thank you!!!

@bobvila1010 2 года назад

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!!

@itsgmani Год назад

Thanks for that.

@mikeavison5383 2 года назад

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.

@ronaldg7522 3 года назад

I am new to astrophotography, and I never stacked the moon. I will try it. Thx.

@woldsweather 3 года назад

OK thanks and BTW how refreshing to hear an English voice on one of these videos and not a loud 'WHAT'S UP' !

@AstroExploring 3 года назад

😂😂

@summeren64 3 года назад

Most astrophotography youtubers are super laidback and chill.

@yosefco 3 года назад

yes, please make another video for the second part of editing

@Luke-bw2nl 3 года назад

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?

@davidcarr4984 4 года назад

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

@AstroExploring 4 года назад

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

@thomas_didymus Год назад

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.

@OzoneVibe 3 года назад

Really useful tutorial for a novice. What, if any, differences would you make were it not full moon?

@Kevinr14 Год назад

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?

@Brian.001 Год назад

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??? 🤔

@Pirrimplin72 2 года назад

Thanks

@richieoflynn 3 года назад

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.

@IDV2007 Год назад

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!

@billsaidel6398 3 года назад

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?

@thedaveysx4 3 года назад

Please could you do a colour tutorial. Thanks

@khamism 3 года назад

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 ?

@Sander_Hollo 2 года назад

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?

@frank5angels308 3 года назад

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.

@THEDOUG78VA 3 года назад

As a general starting point, try ISO100 - f/11 - 1/100. Those work pretty well for me, with an old Canon T3i...

@strivingartistsvideo Год назад

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 Год назад

Were any images out of focus?

@StrivingArtistsLosAngeles Год назад

@@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.

@specfever2 2 года назад

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...

@anupamp8608 3 года назад

Great video Nick, quick question: how did you ensure your individual picture is tack sharp with the telescope?

@AstroExploring 3 года назад

I used the live view on the DSLR and use the focuser on the telescope to make sure it was sharp

@nguyenhoailinh7516 11 месяцев назад

Những tấm ảnh mặt trăng anh chụp trong video có sử dụng tracker không

@MannsWoodlandPerspective 2 года назад

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?

@EhabProDude 3 года назад

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

@pissywilly 3 года назад

I'm stacking the moon in two halves because I'm shooting through a x4 powermate. My stacks are all skewed and messed up.. any ideas? I'm following all the steps? 250 frames and focus is good

@andelkoloncar4791 2 года назад

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!! :))

@geomatrix5452 Год назад

Is this procedure limited to raw files only ie... (is it possible to bring jpegs into PIPP and output Tiffs to stack in Autostakkert?)

@frenchmangocider Год назад

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

@kamilkp 2 года назад

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?

@AstroExploring 2 года назад

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

@numbermayhem Год назад

How about using smartphone, is there any app for stacking photos?

@calebpitaro8262 3 года назад

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!

@DJIMINITHREEPRO 8 месяцев назад

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?

@GrizzJibber 2 года назад

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

@juror12 3 года назад

Do you provide any of the files you used in the tutorial? Currently I don't have the equipment to take my own photographs, but wanted to start to practice the processing part already

@AstroExploring 3 года назад

I haven’t provided my moon data here. I make deep sky images available on my Patreon for a fee but I’ve never released my moon shots. Are you interested in just the Photoshop part? It would be more difficult to share the image files because there are so many of them

@bennyride 2 года назад

Having an issue where the pipp output files are pink and alot less detailed, any fix for this? They are cr2 files

@mattia2325 Год назад

Hello! I wanted to install the program but I don’t know why it says that the site is nonexistent, how can I do?

@wilsonganks Год назад

How to you get the tick and cross on the photos and what are they for?

@kevinashley478 2 года назад

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?

@Joshua-of2dp 2 года назад

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.

@ABetterName22 2 года назад

i keep getting an error in pipp about the files being corupted but they work everywhere else. Does anyone know how to solve this

@lachlanhempell 2 года назад

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.

@liamrebel9447 4 года назад

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.

@amacmedia3221 Год назад

Hi, where is the link to how you captured your moon shots?

@TrixMC 3 года назад

Hello Please tell me if you can use images taken from mobile in this

@MBJanus 3 года назад

Hello, many thanks for the video. I have a small Newton that is on an altaz, and a little Celestron Neximage that can get several frames per sec. I wondered if your method can derotate the moon as I dont have an equatorial pod ? Many thx again, cordially yours, Milos

@AstroExploring 3 года назад

I haven’t tried this with the moon but deep sky stacker rotates deep sky images, so it’s not unreasonable to think that AutoStakkert would do the same. Give it a go!

@MBJanus 3 года назад

@@AstroExploring Some programs admitt parameters to calc the derotation. But is hard to do properly.I didnt achieve

@TrybikPLL 2 года назад

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.

@EE-pe8br 2 года назад

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