ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY PROCESSING

How to stack DSLR images of the Moon

Create a crisper lunar image by stacking in AutoStakkert! and removing unwanted noise

The biggest enemy of the astrophotographer is noise, the unwanted artefacts that appear in images. We often hear about how deep-sky images can be stacked to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) - where the ‘signal’ represents the real features in an image we want to keep - but it can also be a problem when we are imaging