Sparky

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

If you had decent hardware for Vista, it ran like a champ. Those who upgraded from xp running on base specs had a hard time

Grew up using Vista

Thank you. Now I can finally have a slow laugh h a h a h a h a

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.

Can we get a bigger red circle highlighting the black one. It'll make the meme more understandable. Throw in some arrows too

Furries unite!

Fun things happen whenever you upload 2 files with the same names, but differently capitalized letters to a Nas from a linux box, and then try to delete one of them from windows. It broke so hard I actually got a bsod....

Speed bumps in Norwegian are translated to "fartshumper" :)

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.