How to Get Noise-free Star Photos with Starry Landscape Stacker – PetaPixel (blog)

After doing an astrophotography shoot and zooming in on the stars, and you may find digital noise spoiling the scene. Removal in Lightroom can result in less color in the cosmos, but using a piece of software called Starry Landscape Stacker software canmake the final output much better.

In this 23-minute video tutorial byLonely Speck, Starry Landscape Stacker is put to the test.

By taking multiple exposures of the night sky, it is possible for the software to track the stars (accounting for the rotation of the Earth) and determine what is and isnt digital noise.This makesfor much cleaner and higher quality star shots after removal.

The software will select every star it can find, creating a mask of them. Its possible to adjust thismask by clicking on any stars that have been missed (or hot pixels that have beenmisinterpreted).

Itll also select the entire area of sky. You can, once more, fine-tune this to ensure the foreground and sky are entirely separated.

Then just click to continue, andStarry Landscape Stacker will output a TIFF file of glorious stars, without drastically reducednoise. You can see a comparison here the softwares output is on the left, compared with one of the original frames on the right:

Starry Landscape Stacker is available for macOS only and costs $35.

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How to Get Noise-free Star Photos with Starry Landscape Stacker - PetaPixel (blog)

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