Deep Sky Stacker Tutorial in TEN Simple Steps
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- Deep Sky Stacker is freeware that will allow you to stack your deep sky or wide-field astrophotography images. It can stack images using a variety of raw files from various DSLR cameras, or FITS files from dedicated astronomy cameras. In this tutorial, I will show you how to get started in ten simple steps. Deep Sky Stacker is the program that many beginners use when starting astrophotography, but that doesn't mean it's not a powerful program. Many experienced astrophotographers still use it!
I know that I only covered the very basics of using Deep Sky Stacker, but if you have any questions about about using it or any issues, let me know in the comments!
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0:00 Intro
00:34 Download the Software
1:08 Settings for Camera Files
1:52 Open Frame Files
2:57 Adjust View Window
3:30 Delete Bad Frames
4:26 Register Frames
6:28 Registered Frame Details
8:08 Select Frames for Stacking
8:35 Settings for Stacking
10:09 Stack Frames
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the absolute BEST quick tutorial on UA-cam. Thanks a million!
Hey,
Just started testing this program to stack my milkyway shots and after selecting 6 x 3min exposures and 10 dark frames my final image is waaaay overexposed, almost white.
Am I doing something wrong? Or is this software not meant for milkyway, more fore DSOs?
Hey, so when i stack with dss the picture comes out stacked& stretched, not like your and then i cant stretch it in Photoshop
btw when i open the picture anywhere else than dss is comes out likes your but when i stretch it it comes out all pixelated
My dad keeps crashing when I add a photo in. It keeps sayin dad isn’t respondin. Yk how to fix this?
Very very helpfull. Most informative video for beginners I've seen. Thank you!
Jeff
Very helpful with clear explanations for one just starting out with stacking. Thanks!
Thank you for making this quick and to the point. great for people just starting out.
Excellent work - many thanks!!
Wow this video was really helpful! Thanks!
Great stuff, thanks a million.
Thanks alot! Was really helpful
Great instructions,
Thanks, It was helpful. I'm a total new guy at this.
Cool man, I hope to get back to making some more videos soon.
Liked your video very much, short and ond point. Thanks. Would be great to have a similar one that explains the different types of frames and how to take them.
Great suggestion!
Great video.
Does it make a huge difference not adding the dark, flat & bias files?
ok the was nice and straight forward, so the next question is what would be the best editor. can you show us that.
nice video
Thanks for checking it out!
Thanks for the advice.
I did similarly what you described .
I wish I can share my problems with stacking .
I’m not shire what I do wrong .
Is a way I can send you the picture?
Thank you for the helpful video. When I close DSS it asks if I want to save changes made to files etc. Is there some advantage to saving or does it just take up computer memory?
Thnk you.
Good to hear that it helped you! No need to save.
@@ZoliroAstro Thank you.
How come when I try to stack it says it can only stack one?
Really good tutorial video, I have a question tho, I took some good pictures from the moon last week when the eclipse, I used and asi 294 color camera on my thumnails t
Show there is color in the pictures but when deepskystaker does not show any color even the list shows that that frame is a color frame and the picture look like its got a haze all over the picture please help!!! I need to show color and remove that haze before saving it to tiff files to process!!!
Thank you! So you really should be using Autostakkert 3 to stack images of the moon. It's also freeware like deep sky stacker and it does a really fantastic job for stacking lunar, planetary, and solar images. I don't have any tutorials on it yet, but there are a few others on UA-cam you could check out.
@@ZoliroAstro Great, Thanks again for your advice.
@@jjaimesmx Any time!
I liked the way you explained. But in my raw files I did not fined any flat or dark flat or offset/ bias files? So is there any problem with my shoot? So in following your tutorial side by side while me editing, I did not see any of those I mentioned above. So what to do? Please clarify. Thanks
Dark , flat, bias etc... are not created automatically. A dark frame is a picture taken with the lens cap on. A bias is a very fast exposure and the lens cap on, a flat frame is a frame taken with a white cover on the objective.
I know this is a bit late to this game but i have just started to use DSS and have not had any real success. I took a couple hundred fits files of several objects and when I went to stack them DSS gives me an error saying it can't debayer 8 bit files and then the program crashes. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
For me non of my files pop up when clicking and transfering.
Hi thanks for the video!
I had a question about registering checked pictures. Every time I go to stack the pictures I get a pop up message saying: the checked pictures are not compatible (width, height, number of colors, number of channels, only one master dark, offset and flat). And it won't let me continue, but when I only leave my light frames it will. What Am I doing wrong?
Sorry, I didn't get back to you sooner! Did you ever figure it out? I know there can be a few different reasons why this happens.
Hey, thanks for your help, and no I haven't had a chance to try anything new to get and resolve the issue. What do you think it can be? I'm gonna test it out again this weekend. I appreciate any insight
It could be that some of the setting in your calibration frames don't match up. For instance, darks are supposed to be the same exposure length, and ISO or gain. Dark flats should match the exposure length of the flats. Not sure if that's it maybe.
Doesn't dss remove the bad or unusable frames automatically? When you set a percentage of frames to keep, isn't that what it's doing?
Yes, you can use it that way, but sometimes the rating system isn't always reliable or accurate. For instance, I've had frames with light clouds and DSS rated it good, because it thought that the clouds were good signal, even if the stars weren't great. That's why I like to manually go through my frames.
Help! When I try to Compute the number of detected stars, it says from -0- to 3 stars. NGC3324, 30 exposures 10 sec. each. Meade Deep Sky IV 16MP CMOS. Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong. Orion SkyQuest XX14g GOTO telescope. I can SEE many stars in the images, fairly clear.
Did you try to adjust the star detection parameters? It could also be that a 10 sec exposure is not long enough to overcome the noise in the picture, and DSS is having a hard time telling the difference between the noise and the stars.
I am new in all of this, but I make over 200 moon pics, want to stack them with pipp, but every time my final photo is zoomed. I dont know what am i doing wrong here, any help?
Sorry for my not so good english, i hope u understand what is my point.
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Hello! So I've used PIPP for combining two separate videos into one, but I've never used it for stacking. I think there is a setting that has to do with cropping around the target vs expanding the area around the target. When I stack lunar, planetary, or solar photos, I use another free software called AutoStakkert. I believe it's much easier and does a better job at stacking compared to PIPP. You should give it a try!
I went through the whole stacking process but DSS never created a preview image at the end, or the autosave.tiff in the Lights folder. Not sure why that is since a couple of weeks ago another set of images worked fine in DSS.
(I know this was three days ago, and I hope you solved the issue already. )
I've had my fair share of issues with DSS. Most of the time it would work for me, but every once in a while I would have an issue that I couldn't figure out. Despite the occasional issues, it's still a great free software for astrophotography. One of the things to try is to close the program and try again. Not sure what your computer setup is like, but DSS can be pretty taxing on your PC depending on your hardware specs. I would try to run it again and make sure no other programs are running at the same time.
@@ZoliroAstro Thanks. I ended up ditching about a 1/3 of the photos that I took because I believe too many of the stars drifted out of frame for proper aligning. I also made sure that my batch of photos for this session were not adjacent to any other folders from previous sessions. This may or may not have thrown DSS off. In any case, I was able to get a stacked .tiff file.