Yup deep sky stacker tracks the stars so you don’t need a physical star tracker. Give it a shot, and post it here :)

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Jeez those images have to be huge. My stack took about 5 minutes to complete on a low end laptop with 16gb of ram.

Take a look at stellarium. It’s an app that uses your phone’s compass to show a map of the stars. I’ve not used it as my phone has a god awful compass so the map is inaccurate.

No problem :)

Here’s how noisy the image would have been if I used one frame with a higher iso instead of 30 of them

Also remember to find a spot with less light pollution so that more stars would be visible.

Oh yea and the software runs in bottles under wine on Linux. Just say no to automatic updates when it asks as that causes some funky behaviour.

To be honest I don’t know. I haven’t seen it enough to verify that.

I didn’t really follow any specific instructions, but here’s what I did:

1. Point the camera towards whatever you want to take pictures of. Try to use the raw mode to capture as much detail as possible.

2. Take as many pictures of said place as you want. I took about 30, but more images = less noise in your processed image. Since I used my phone for these, I used scrcpy to see and control the device over usb adb, mainly because I didn’t want to accidentally move the device it while trying to take the next picture.

3. To process the images, I followed this tutorial on YouTube.

4. Post processing the image was done in gimp. The tif files deep sky stacker exports are usually wayyy too dark, so you’ll need to adjust the brightness.

Pro tip: try to keep trees and other landscape out of the frame of the photos because deep sky stacker tracks the earth’s rotation, meaning the landscape will be blurry.

I don’t know how it is in other countries, but if you call an ambulance because you want a free ride to the hospital in Norway you get a hefty fine for wasting emergency resources. Doesn’t the US have the same kind of laws stopping people from using ambulances as ubers. If not, then that’s how make the ambulance free for people who need it, and really expensive for people who don’t.

Imagine if the Google cards get discontinued half way into the game 💀

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I assume you’re talking about kagi. I pay for their $5/month subscription and it’s great

BeOS?

Yea!

Dickhead?

Part of why I thought this was stabilized is because of the minimal streaking around the stars from the earth’s rotation. I’ve tried taking astro photos at 30s exposure, but they become streaky like this one . I guess that might change a bit if I were to switch to a wider lense or use an actual dslr.

Holy shit this is so good. Did you stabilize the camera to earth’s rotation, or is this a really short exposure?

Jokes on you googling those questions will lead to nothing else other than seo spam.

It’s not about the death. It’s about if it’s going to die. I’ve seen smart errors weeks before a hdd died which gave me time to back that data up.