astrophotography stacking?

[bcfcciderhead]

Quatermass has a great blog on getting your astrophotos set up. I would recommend getting some books on the subject as well, it will save you from making an expensive mistake (buying the wrong equipment) and a lot of headaches (DSLR settings and stacking). Making Every Photon Count by Steve Richards is your best bet (he posts on this site as well) Good luck:)

I bought this a week ago and this book is the bee's knees,

Well written even i can understand it:eek:......you need to buy it.

P.S....I'm not Steve Richards

[dph1nm]

Also, does stacking images give an advantage in light pollution?

Stacking always improves things, so it will make the images better, even under light pollution. However, you will always struggle to match images taken from really dark skies (in essence, you would need to take far more stacks with light pollution to get the same result as without - and if you run through the maths it can be a frightening amount more!!).

NigelM