Thanks Carlos, the information is written above every pic
Notice almost all of them say:
'single 10 second frame' or
'single 40 second frame' . . etc.
because that's what they are,
'Single' frames. No stacking.
The only 2 with any stacking are Markarian's Chain which is a stack of 3
'Averaged' frames and Sombrero which is a stack of 3
'Additive' frames.
It was only done as an experiment so I could see the difference between
'Additive' and
'Average' stacking.
I'm not against stacking, I just prefer not to do it any more.
If I was using Autoguiding properly I might do more stacking but I only use my guidescope and guidecamera as a simple finderscope
I had enough years of being fussy when I did Astrophotography, so now I simply can't be bothered.
Objects look good on my monitor, so that's good enough for me.
By the time I got Guiding going, then waited for stacking to complete, I'd already be on the next object.
I like to look at other peoples captures, stacked, processed, cropped, anything.
But when I'm simply looking around the sky and having a bit of fun I just don't stack. All I do is adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, or Hue, all on the fly. A couple of minutes and I'm onto another object.
If my control room was full of visitors that wanted to see better quality views I would stack for them. But even then I would only stack 3 frames. After that I don't see much improvement.
Probably because of my dark skies.
No I don't use Dark Frame correction. It's just more fiddling.
Here's my workflow:
I turn on the power. Open the RisingSky software. Select the camera (1600, which is the 224), I slide Video speed to 1500 milliseconds (1.5 seconds). GoTo an object.
Once on the object I slide video up to 5000 ms (5 seconds) to check if the object is centred, then switch to Trigger Mode set to 10 seconds. If I want to see the object brighter I slide up to 20 seconds or 30 seconds or whatever it needs. If I don't like the colour I might fiddle with Hue and Contrast. When finished looking I switch back to Video mode and GoTo the next object.
I'm not saving images for a collection, or albums, or for online. I go to objects just to have a look at them.
In fact, I rarely snap a pic of anything I see any more. I used to, but now I only do it occasionally, to post in here about what I've been up to