Camera captures with tripod and stacking

[Taff]

Hi All' Is it possible to stack captures when taken with a camera on a tripod Thanks.Mark

[Sam]

It certainly is. You will be limited in the time of exposure though as you will get star trails.

[Taff]

Thanks lightbucket' for your quick reply.Mark

[Ben Ritchie]

Software that can auto-align individual frames can help the trailing, but i've found that it tends to get confused by anything terrestrial in the image - e.g. if you have a tree and sky, it tends to auto-align on the tree rather than the stars and the trails are back. So you may need to crop to make sure you only have sky.

[Taff]

Thanks Ben Ritchie' for your help i'll keep it in mind.Mark

[moondog]

Taff, I've been imaging while I've been in New Zealand with the DSLR on a fixed tripod. I usually take about 8 or 10 subs, 20 to 25 secs at 800 or 1600 ISO Camera lens 18mm at F5.6.

I stack using ImagesPlus which will handle field rotation. A freebie program that will handle rotation is Deep Sky Stacker.

Here's a link to my album on SGL that has a couple of DSLR on fixed tripod images (last 2 in album)

http://stargazerslounge.com/album.php?albumid=63

MD

[Taff]

Thanks MD, for your help.Great pictures from New Zealand.Mark