Changed my whole stacking process after a cloudy night at Mt. Pinos

Used to just stack deep-sky frames in DSS with default settings, getting noisy results every time. Last month I switched to PI's weighted batch preprocessing and finally pulled out the faint dust lanes in M31 that were always buried. Anyone else notice a big jump moving from free stacking software to something more hands-on?

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james_ramirez2d ago

wait did you have to redo all your old data too or did you just start fresh with the new workflow? i had a similar thing happen when i finally figured out dithering made a bigger difference than i thought lol

diana_black222d ago

Redid about fifty hours of old data. Worth it though.