Honestly, I thought stacking a ton of short exposures was the only way to go

I used to just take a few hundred 30-second shots of Andromeda and call it a night. A guy in the forum convinced me to try fewer, longer 3-minute subs with my star tracker, and the detail in the dust lanes is just way cleaner now. Anyone else made that switch and noticed less noise?

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ericjackson2d ago

My dad always said you can't rush a good stew. Same idea here. I pushed my old DSLR to five minute exposures on the Orion Nebula last winter, and the difference in smoothness was like night and day compared to my old one-minute shots. It seems like a lot of hobbies have that same lesson, where patience for a deeper process beats a faster, shallow one.

coleman.derek2d ago

Yeah, @ericjackson, I read a whole thing about that with film photography too.