Sequator Tutorial for Astrophotography (Easy Star Stacking Software)
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2021
- Sequator is a free image stacking software for star images. It will align and stack your image exposures to create a better nightscape, milky way, or even a deep space photo.
Download Sequator: sites.google.com/site/sequato...
Sequator is available for Windows PC's, and accepts most images taken with a DSLR/Mirrorless camera (Not TIF files).
The stacking process is simple and fast, and the results are impressive. The final image will have much less noise and is well-suited for further post-processing.
Sequator Stacking Software Features
• Easy, User friendly, and Fast
• Automatic determination for best parameters
• Capable under heavy light pollution
• Powerful correction for wide-angle & complex distortions
• Intelligent sky mask
• Foreground detection & stacking
• Star light enhancement function
• Light pollution reduction function
• Support star trails mode
• Batch processing for time-lapse
• Support RAW & 16-bit TIFF
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Thanks, I've never been clear on the stacking process - this looks like a great place to start!
As a beginner I can't thank you enough Trevor, your tutorials are sooooo helpful. :)
Incredible...I had no idea that Sequator had all of those features. Thank you for showing us the way!
I can't thank you enough for making these videos, I just recently got into astrophotography this winter and your content is so incredibly helpful, especially for a beginner like me. 👍🌌
Welcome back to a simpler set of tools and equipment. Great video as always. Pretty neat what you can do with only a bit of kit and free software. Cheers.
Thank you. I have wanted to do this for decades. I had almost given up when Sequator came out free.
Thanks Trevor for the quick video on this software. I first came across it on one of Peter Zelinka’s videos back in 2020. Ironically enough, he found DSS later on and dabbled a bit there having never used it. I guess we’re all still learning and that’s so amazing. Thx again!
Thank you, based on this tutorial I gave Sequator an another try and and the result was greatly improved.
Thanks for pointing out this software. I have seen this before but never used it. I tried it on some old data from last summer, very similar to what you used in the video, and it turned out very well. Thanks again for educating us with these tutorials.
Thanks a lot ! I just used it a few minutes ago, it's great, Sequator just stacked 7 images perfectly in about 20 seconds ! So easy to use, so easy to re-import in Lightroom. :)
Well this is definetly a life-changer for my astrophotography experience. Tried it last night and it's freaking awesome. The results are just astoniishing. Thank you!
Sequator was the first stacker to give me good results and was simple to use when I was first starting out in AP. I, too was pretty surprised that it seemed to be ignored by most folks doing AP. I've since graduated to DSS, which didn't initially work for me, and SirL, but sometimes when I'm in a hurry to look at results, Sequator is my go-to! I trust that Trevor's video will give it the attention it deserves. Oh, and the author does request a dollar or two to buy him a cup of coffee if you like his program--I've sent him a few.
I just followed this and stacked my first milky way photo. Thanks for the very easy to understand video!
Brilliantly explained cheers I’ve never ever been interested in
Star stacking until now 📷
Had this software for a while . Thanks Trevor for the tutorial.
I use sequator for all my nightscape images and have even stacked images of the full moon with it. Love this software works perfect every time for me.
Thank you so much, Trevor, for a beginner like me that was incredibly helpful.
Thank you Trevor for another great video for us beginners. I will download if I haven’t already. Since it’s been cloudy it’s a good time to learn processing.
Thanks Trevor, I just received my Apertura 60EDR today and will receive my used Canon T6i tomorrow and hopefully receive my Celestron Advanced VX mount by the end of February. I am a TOTAL newbie and was hesitant regarding editing. This sounds like a great easy package.
Tnx for a nice tutorial. I hsve used it many times to process old astrophotos and it is super fast!! I used to preprocess in IRIS which was so slow, that it bricks your computer.
I have doneted to the author some dollars and I also encourage everyone to do so. Amazing simple and free software.🎇
I was wondering when you were going to show this off. This was my software of choice for DSLR. Easily better than DSS
Well not as effective for dso's as dss
@@scarpography How so?
It's not as good technically but it's way faster and especially better for wide angle images. DSS has better image quality but it's also a bit picky about how good the sub has to be. But for best image , pixinsight is the way to go
🐦🐦
@@pupperemeritus9189 no, just sequator
1st rattle out of the box, Sequator didn't do so good on my rendition of the Lobster Claw. But then after digging back through some old archives, I ran it again on the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules; and it did a great job! ...batter in fact than what I was able to do with DSS. So it appears having both programs at the ready may offer additional choices not had before.
Thanks for the tip Trevor!!
I have been experimenting with smartphone astrophotography. I use astrocam software on Mi9 with a tripod. I have been using Sequator for quite sometime. I just love the software. Easy to use, works like a charm, great output. A little bit of tweak in lightroom and I get seriously good images.
Just downloaded Sequator and watched this, just what I needed, nice n simple. I'm not very techy so this is perfect for me. Hopefully get some clear sky soon so I can get my scope and recently purchased old dslr hooked up for some shots of Andromeda.
Thanks for a great video.
Really straight forward tutorial! Love it!
thanks, Trevor for another great video.
I found this program during the Neowise gambit. It's pretty great.
This is a great tutorial, thanks Trevor! Gonna try it myself and see how it compares with DSS.
Cool! Yeah for nightscapes I think it makes a lot of sense. Deep-sky will come down to preference, but I am impressed!
Beautiful video Trevor! Sequator looks much simpler to use than Dss, but it seems not to offer you so much control and options as Deep Sky Stacker, currently working on a Full tutorial on stacking in Dss, but will try and do some stacks in sequator also, and try it especially for nightscapes.
thanks, dude! Very good tutorial and nice pics!
Thanks for the video. I love the software. I have used it before and plan on a night out on the 15th of this month (04/15 or 15/04 - 2023 - whichever format you choose...) to take some pictures. Wish me clear skies :)
This is incredibly helpful as I didn't know where to start with stacking. Thanks!!!
Congrats for 300k! I just saw you hit it!
Thanks Trevor for sharing this amazing piece of software
Thank you for this tutorial. I need to process my first MW photo and I feel more confident now.
Thanks for the introduction. I had the software but hesitated to us it. Now I will definitely use.
Oh god thank you so much, your tutorial was easy to understand!
This tutorial is also easy, fast and direct, thank you!
Thanks for this my friend! I'm just beginning astrophotography & was wondering which program to try, your tutorial made the choice easy!
First of all, thanks for all of the excellent videos you post. I appreciate your positivity and enthusiasm. Regarding this video ... I've been using Sequator for a couple months and was wondering why it hadn't been given more attention by well-known photographers such as yourself. Good to see that I am not crazy after all and that respected people like you are using it also. As you said, we should all be thanking the software creator .. he/she deserves accolades for this software.
It gets ignored because it's not as new and shiny as the others.
From my limited experience: Sequator is easy to use with clear options and baked in algorithms that are pretty good for everything. It's easier to get it to successfully stack problematic frames (e.g., frames with focus problems, or slightly smeared stars) as compared to, say, Deep Sky Stacker. That all makes it easier for people new to astrophotography to get actual results without spending hours fighting with software. And of course it does landscape freezing, which hardly any other software does.
I think a big part of why it's not talked about more are the very things that make it simple and easy for newbies to use. DSS and Astro Pixel Processor allow you to choose different algorithms and do other additional categorization and processing to improve the output, while Sequator is more "good enough".
Personally I've moved to Astro Pixel Processor. It has lots of options, but has real guidance about when and how to use them. DSS has very little guidance about its many, many options (and I personally suspect some of them are of the "this isn't actually useful, but we included it for the sake of completeness" variety). On the other hand, DSS is free, while APP costs a chunk of cash.
4:38 thank you - I came here for this.
it's an awesome program which I use for stacking my lapse astro shots on my S23 Ultra.
what I really needed was a way to regulate the size of the brush for the mask, and you've come through with the goods.
Thank you Trevor! I’m definitely giving this a try!
Awesome!
My favorite software! Well explained Trevor
Wow. Thanks for sharing. I have heard of it but never thought of using it for nightscape images as I though it was just like DSS. Giving you the option to do star trails and stacking with a stationary foreground is awesome.
My pleasure, Kurt. It's pretty great, I think you would enjoy it!
Excellent video - thanks for explaining this process. Now I have all the pieces and parts I need to make this a success. Just waiting for the remote shutter release for my new camera and the t-adaptor and t-ring.
I've used sequator when DSS refused to process some images but I had no idea about the extra options you pointed out. I will absolutely be trying those out next time.
THANKS for your great tutorial.
AWESOME tutorial!! Thank you so much!!
This look remarkably easy to use. Thank you!
Thank you for the quick and dirty tutorial. I'm still struggling with my processing techniques. This looks almost simple enough that I think even I could do it LOL!
Thank you very much, straight to the point and simple. great vid
Thank you for the guide, I found it very usefull. It was a great presentation!
Great overview Trevor, thanks! :)
I have used Sequator instead DeepSkystacker and I am very happy with the results. I recommend it
AWESOME Trevor! 🙌🏻
ANOTHER great tutorial
Thank you.
Great Video, good job on explaining.
Thank you for this video! fot this past weekend's perseid meteor shower i did my best to capture some just with my phone camera on a tripod. I was able to get 3 snd even though there is clear light pollution i was able to use Sequator to stack the 3 images to have all 3 meteors show up in one image! This was my first time doing soemthing like this and hopefully in the future whenever i can get bettre equipment and can get photos like yours as well :)
I’m finding a few links on google. Which is the legit one, can you help? It’s my first time too lol.
Great video, very helpful. Thank you!
Yes, very good soft, I use it for both nightscape & DSO. Some problems ( light pollution removal generate colour banding imho) but VERY simple & good.
This is great! Thanks Trevor!
I always thought it only Stacked the sky but even when you select the sky and put it to freeze ground the ground gets Stacked and cleaned. Amazing!
Great, thanks. I'll give it a try.
Never heard of it. I will definitely give it a try Trevor!
Have you tried it? How was it in comparison to say deep sky stacker
thanks soo much this helped me stack my first photo of the orion nebula thx
Great review. In an hadware expensive hobby like this, free tools like this helps a lot and are really welcomed.
Excellent - Thanks for sharing. Really useful .
Hi Trevor/love ur work mate...content is awesome every time...I use a 6d markii & it would be great to see more of ur work using that camera...I know it’s no-where close to some of ur other rigs, but just interesting seeing ur results from using that camera 👍
Very interesting. Stacking has always been a bit of a put off for me. Will have to give it a go.
Greater tutorial
I love simplicity
I have been using sequator for about a year. I prefer it to DSS. The stacked image is much better, and I get much better color with less processing.
Thank you for this great video !
Thank you so much for making this very useful video
Awesome software and still free. Use it for all my night time shots
Thank you for this! Very helpful!
Thanks mate, love the videos. 🇬🇧
Thank you! Very helpful!! 👍👍👍
Thanks for the Sequator software
Thank you very much for this video!
It is excellent software, I've been using it for a couple years.
Super helpful! Thanks so much! Until I watched your video, I didn't know about the "freeze ground" option and so I kept getting blurred foregrounds.
It seems like really beginner friendly, so the perfect software for me, which I will try out when the weather gets better.....
Yeah,me too, weather is horrible in Europe right now, especially in Germany.i HATE WINTER.I can't shoot anything.
Is it for both window and Mac or.only for window..
@@TheTenzin10 idk i think it should be on windows too.
@@anndreistc definetly
@@anndreistc Me who dreams to move to Germany, who does skiing and loves winter: -_-
This video was awesome, I have tried Sequator but never quite got the result I was looking for. Turns out I was painting the entire sky even along tree edges and it came out weird, it never occurred to me to just paint the Milky Way
you got a new subscriber here thanks for this vid its so helpful for beginner like me
very very good tutorial ,many thanks
Thanks! I need to get more serious about my processing.
Ummm, well, looks like I’m downloading a new stacking software...
Please do more editing-style videos, I love those, and you make videos really well.
awesome I'll give this a try
Very great video. Glad you told us about this tool
Really interesting, will download and give it a go. Seems a more 'black box' solution where it does most of its processing based on internal algorithms, compared to DSS where you can select a wider set of options before running. Doesn't make it a bad thing though, just a different way of doing it.
Thanks Trevor, don't remember ever trying Sequator, might try running my 2 dumbbell sets that wouldn't stack through it and see what happens.
literally thanks
This seems really good. I wanted to try stacking but dds is kinda painfull to work with if you dont know what you are doing plus the separation of forgroung is awesome. Thanks man
Now i got the idea.thank you
This tutorial is interesting. I found it helpful.
Trevor it would nice to see you stacking in FITs tutorial! Thanks!
Thanks for the info will definitely check this out if this is better than DSS
I'll have to give that a go!
The result 😍