Andy420 Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Evening everyone, I’ve been wanting to get into astrophotography since being a child , now I’m that bigger child at 41 I’ve finally bought myself a canon 1300d with kit lens and a canon 70d with kit lens , msm tracker a tripod and intervalometer and I need some help with the settings I should be using can someone please give me some advise on setting up my cameras how to stop the noise and get crystal clear pictures , what stacking software is best for a newbie , thank you all in advance , much love andy xox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Hi Andy welcome to the forum. There are a lot of people on here who can help with your query. I can’t comment on the camera settings as it is a while since I used my DSLR for astro but free stacking software is available. One for Windows is Deep Sky Stacker http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html Easy to use and great for a newcomer. Noise is normally tackled in the processing side rather than within the camera itself. I use PixInsight to produce my images and there are plugins for it to reduce noise. There is a module you can buy called Topaz DenoiseAI https://www.topazlabs.com/denoise-ai which works great standalone or within Photoshop and/or Affinity Photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carastro Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) Duplicated. See next post. Carole Edited November 6, 2022 by Carastro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carastro Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) I haven’t done DSLR imaging for many years, but l was told to take 300secs @ 800 ISO. take as many as possible - several hour’s worth. Do not turn on noise reduction in the camera as each image will take twice as long. I have a “How to image with a DSLR” page on my website which l wrote in 2013 with a few tweaks since then. Many people have found it useful and l will post a link up. My reservation is your mount as ideally you need to guide, though might be less bothersome in wide-field images. You may need shorter exposures if you can’t guide. Getting noise free images with an uncooled camera is pretty impossible. https://sites.google.com/view/astrophotography-carole-pope/how-to-image-with-a-dslr Carole Edited November 6, 2022 by Carastro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkulin Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Welcome Andy, Enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 On 11/4/2022 at 11:47 PM, Andy420 said: Evening everyone, I’ve been wanting to get into astrophotography since being a child , now I’m that bigger child at 41 I’ve finally bought myself a canon 1300d with kit lens and a canon 70d with kit lens , msm tracker a tripod and intervalometer and I need some help with the settings I should be using can someone please give me some advise on setting up my cameras how to stop the noise and get crystal clear pictures , what stacking software is best for a newbie , thank you all in advance , much love andy xox Hi Andy, welcome to the forum. I would suggest checking out Astro Pixel Processor for stacking and processing because it's workflow-based and easy to use. It isn't free but reasonably priced, and you can get results fast. Here's the basic workflow video I saw on Facebook: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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