{"id":28,"date":"2008-01-23T02:04:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T07:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/deepskystacker\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T22:16:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T02:16:39","slug":"deepskystacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/deepskystacker\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSkyStacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a clear, cold night in the suburbs.  I can typically make out most of the major constellations, and other random stuff, and if the moon is down, a fair number more.  The moon was about 1\/2 this night, and I figured it was worth a shot.  I took 9 3-second exposures with a 50mm\/1.4 lens on a Nikon D300.  The pictures themselves were pretty good, showing several times more stars than I could see with the naked eye.  But then my friend showed me how to use <a href=\"http:\/\/deepskystacker.free.fr\/english\/index.html\">DeepSkyStacker<\/a>.  This program basically does some fancy noise reduction to get rid of the haze of each shot and make the stars really stand out.  The results speak for themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/efsavage\/2203483958\/\" title=\"Lotsa Stars by Eric F Savage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2323\/2203483958_2b86c28c2c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Lotsa Stars\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a clear, cold night in the suburbs. I can typically make out most of the major constellations, and other random stuff, and if the moon is down, a fair number more. The moon was about 1\/2 this night, and I figured it was worth a shot. I took 9 3-second exposures with a&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"simppeli-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/deepskystacker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DeepSkyStacker<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[56,158,159],"series":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-astronomy","tag-deepskystacker","tag-nikon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AkJt-s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}