Changed my whole approach to night photography after a failed trip to Crater Lake last month

I spent 3 years trying to get those crisp Milky Way shots using high ISO and short exposures, but they always came out grainy. Then a guy on a forum told me to stack 10 to 15 shorter exposures instead of one long one, and it fixed my noise problem completely. Tried it at a dark spot outside of Bend last weekend and got a clean shot of the stars for the first time. Anyone else find a simple trick that changed how they shoot in low light?

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angela68726d ago

Actually stacking helps with noise but you're losing detail by not using longer single exposures too lol.

laura_allen25d ago

Wait, @angela687, are you seriously saying longer single exposures preserve more detail than stacking? I always thought stacking was the gold standard for noise reduction without losing sharpness. Guess I need to rethink my whole approach to astrophotography then.