Pro tip: stop posting your stacked Milky Way shots at full brightness

I was at a star party near Moab last month and some guy next to me pulled up his Milky Way pic on a tablet, and it looked like a gray smear with a bright orange glow at the bottom. He told me he drove 6 hours to get that shot and it was straight out of the camera, no edits. I get that people are proud of finally catching the core, but a single unedited sub is not the flex, it's a starting point. Learn to stack 20 or 30 frames and stretch the histogram before you post, otherwise you're just showing everyone your light pollution. What's your go to method for cutting that orange skyglow without killing the dust lanes?

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jesse77318d ago

The orange glow at the bottom is usually from light pollution, not from skipping the edit, so stacking alone won't fix it since every frame picks up the same glow. Best bet is to catch it in camera first with a light pollution filter, then use gradient removal in whatever stacking software you run. Curious what your sky looked like near Moab though, that area is usually pretty dark.

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