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Someone told me my star trails looked like 'spaghetti on a plate' and I finally get it now
They said my 30-second exposures were too long and made everything blurry, so I switched to 10 seconds and stacked way more frames. Anyone have a good stacking software they like for this?
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robin8361mo ago
Oh man, spaghetti on a plate is exactly right! I had the same issue with star trails my first time shooting. My buddy told me my photos looked like a cat had a seizure on the tripod. I switched to 10 second exposures and used DeepSkyStacker for stacking. It's free and pretty simple once you figure out the workflow. Took me a few tries to get the settings right but now I can actually see stars instead of blurry lines. Plus the stacking makes the colors pop way better than a single long exposure.
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grantthomas1mo ago
StarStaX is free and works great for that.
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the_claire1mo ago
Free is my favorite price. I tried stacking star photos once with some other app and my final image looked like a toddler smeared glow in the dark paint everywhere. Maybe I should actually try StarStaX instead of whatever that was.
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