Quote Originally Posted by freelanceshots


I have plenty of experience with the multiple images joined into one image to give the effect of progressive movement where I've even gone a step further and done it with a panning image. At first that is what I was kind of considering image stacking to be but when I read on the Internet I learned that its best for photographing the sky at night.


Found this webpage (http://keithwiley.com/astroPhotography/imageStacking.shtml) and it helped me to understand better. Simple right?!?!



It's been a while but I am familiar with that web site and the information contained within.
Simple?
Well, If the conditions are right and you have all the right equipment it can be. Capturing all the image data, (Light Frames, Dark Frames, Bias, and Flats) is relatively easy, but time consuming. Then you need the right stacking software! One popular application is Deep Sky Stacker. That makes things easy as far as Calibration and Stacking of everything goes. The hard part comes when you need to process all that stacked image data to bring it to life. Unfortunately just stacking a bunch of shots isn't going to do that for you.