Yup deep sky stacker tracks the stars so you don’t need a physical star tracker. Give it a shot, and post it here :)

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Jeez those images have to be huge. My stack took about 5 minutes to complete on a low end laptop with 16gb of ram.

Take a look at stellarium. It’s an app that uses your phone’s compass to show a map of the stars. I’ve not used it as my phone has a god awful compass so the map is inaccurate.

No problem :)

Here’s how noisy the image would have been if I used one frame with a higher iso instead of 30 of them

Also remember to find a spot with less light pollution so that more stars would be visible.

Oh yea and the software runs in bottles under wine on Linux. Just say no to automatic updates when it asks as that causes some funky behaviour.

To be honest I don’t know. I haven’t seen it enough to verify that.

I didn’t really follow any specific instructions, but here’s what I did:

1. Point the camera towards whatever you want to take pictures of. Try to use the raw mode to capture as much detail as possible.

2. Take as many pictures of said place as you want. I took about 30, but more images = less noise in your processed image. Since I used my phone for these, I used scrcpy to see and control the device over usb adb, mainly because I didn’t want to accidentally move the device it while trying to take the next picture.

3. To process the images, I followed this tutorial on YouTube.

4. Post processing the image was done in gimp. The tif files deep sky stacker exports are usually wayyy too dark, so you’ll need to adjust the brightness.

Pro tip: try to keep trees and other landscape out of the frame of the photos because deep sky stacker tracks the earth’s rotation, meaning the landscape will be blurry.

Part of why I thought this was stabilized is because of the minimal streaking around the stars from the earth’s rotation. I’ve tried taking astro photos at 30s exposure, but they become streaky like this one . I guess that might change a bit if I were to switch to a wider lense or use an actual dslr.

Holy shit this is so good. Did you stabilize the camera to earth’s rotation, or is this a really short exposure?

Maybe building one yourself might be a good idea. I found someone’s old desktop with an 8th Gen i7, 32gb of ram, mobo and Gtx 1070 gpu on the side of the road while on a road trip. Thing was sitting in the rain and slightly rusted, but when I cleaned off the corrosion, stuffed it full of hdds and set it up with truenas scale it’s been running flawlessly with an uptime of almost a year. Been running like that for about 5 years now with the occasional maintenance.

:3

I learned blender just to make a representation of my code in action … gif

Idk who needs to know this, but in Norwegian “runke” means to jerk off. “runk” is the word you add a prefix to in conjugation to get the different inflections

• runke - jerk off
• runker - jerking off
• runket - jerked off

Etc…

If you’re the owner of the website, I suggest you look into those php errors

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Norwegian pine gap moment 💀

It was actually this radar tower., and it’s publically accessible

hahahah poor Danny DeVito!

It’s good you’ve checked yours. Many people are too afraid to seek help or even bother to check their soccer balls 😆

Jeez how long did it take to upload that 100tb? I’ve had files 50gb in size that have taken hours because of their 30-100mbps upload speed.

Yea… Dementia