thank you so much for this video. I was struggling with processing until I watched your video. It was so easy to follow along with you and follow your lead. Really big help. Any plans to make a video for galaxies or star clusters?
Nice video. What form/format was the image in when you began processing it? Did it come from Deep Sky Stacker? I know DSS can Autosave a TIFF file or you can save a FTS file. Can Photoshop open the TIFF from DSS? How about a FTS? Thanks! Isn't there something about not being able to process a 32 bit vs a 16 bit or something like that? Sorry for the questions, I'm a newbie and just trying to learn how to do this.
Sadly I didn't take this. It was a video tutorial for my friend who took the shot but I decided to upload the onto here for anyone who might be struggling with astrophotography processing.
I know this is an old post but I do hope you can answer this question. When bringing the image over to PS do you do anything at all in camera raw? When I import the photo it opens in camera raw first. I'm still having a hard time stretching the data because my sliders all all the way over to the edge clipping the blacks already. Any advise?
I would have to see your image in its raw state before processing. It might be that there is already too much noise which would make processing astro images very difficult.
@@beatnicksbeats thank you! I figured as much. I'm gonna try it again and lower the iso. I was shooting ar 6400 which I thought was to high but was given that advise. I have a d600 and d810. I'm using an f/10 scope. What iso would you recommend? Thanks again.
Wow yeah iso 6400 is high. It's more about the quality of long exposures at lower iso (800), layered on top with darks and flats. Have you stacked your image?
Also f/10 is a bit slow for deep space images (by slow I mean the length of time photons take to hit your sensor in your camera). For planets it's fine but you would need longer exposures for an f/10 compared to a newtonian which are usually around f/5
I am so grateful for this info. I have a 6.3 focal reducer but wasnt using it. My 1st attempt at astrophotography so I had lots of questions and very few answers. Eventually I plan on getting a better scope but we all hv to start somewhere.
