Stacking 50 shots of Orion's Belt with a cheap tripod gave me a clear shot

I was getting blurry star trails with my old DSLR, even at 15 second exposures. A guy at the Denver astronomy club told me to try stacking 50 quick 2-second shots instead of one long one. I used DeepSkyStacker and the result was way sharper than anything I'd done before. Has anyone else found that stacking beats a single long exposure for basic gear?

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willow_king1mo ago

But what about the noise from all those short shots?

thomas7841mo ago

Totally, stacking just kills the noise, right? My old camera's high ISO grain basically vanished after I tried the same trick.

miab1616d ago

Feeling your pain on that grain struggle. Glad stacking helped you too.