r/Stargazing

Stacked/Blended/Tracked

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I was looking for a Tajinaste, one of the iconic symbols of the Canary Islands, and I was lucky enough to find it beneath the famous Mirador de Los Andenes. In front of me, a volcanic landscape rises above a sea of clouds that gently blankets the villages below, while one of the most breathtaking night skies in the Canary Islands unfolds overhead.

• Sky: Canon R + Canon 6D | 3-panel panorama | 120s | f/2.8 | ISO 1600
Ha 6x120 s| f/2.8| ISO 3200
• Foreground: 180s | 1/2.8 | ISO 3200

Although people go to Oregon Caves for the caves. This place is also a Dark Sky Sanctuary and is a good spot for stargazing.

This photo was taken with iPhone 16 Pro Max, 30 second long exposure, during September 13th 2025.

Yo this Is helix nebula and this is really cool it looks like an eye and this nebula is really cool I love this nebula

This is a 10’s single exposure image of the Milky Way Core. No AI used.

iPhone 17 Pro

Native Camera App (ProRaw Mode)

24mm 1x sensor 48MP (Untracked Tripod)

ISO 3200 | 10.0’s | f1.78

Processed in RawTherapee (Raw decoding), Siril (Stretching & Pre-processing), GIMP (color calibration & tweaks.)

Taken on 24th April 2026 under Bortle 2 skies.

Long-time lurker, first real post. Hoping the mods give me a pass for self-promo because I think this community is exactly who I need to hear from.

After years of doing astro the conventional way — Windows laptops on the balcony that kept crashing, dedicated cameras with driver problems, endless cable management — I decided to find out whether modern iPhones could actually do live-stacking natively. Turns out they can, more or less. So I spent the past year building it.

AstroStackerPro: real-time live stacking entirely on-device, up to ~600 frames per session, IMU-based derotation using the gyroscope for untracked long integrations, on-board editor with denoise (AI, on-device), sharpen, light-pollution removal, and exports to FITS for those of you who want to take the stack into PixInsight or Siril.

Privacy: 100% on-device, no cloud, no analytics, no account.

Requirements: iPhone 11 or later, recent iOS.

Public TestFlight beta is open. One-person project, v1.0.1, definitely rough in places, and I am genuinely at the stage where real users finding the things I missed is more valuable than gold to me. So please be hard on it.

Honest caveat: for certain targets (deep sky, high magnification) you'll still want a tripod, a star tracker, or a dedicated iPhone telephoto — but I'm actively pushing to minimize the extra gear needed.

Best channel for detailed feedback is email at astrostackerpro@icloud.com, I reply individually.

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🌌 https://astrostackerpro.com

Clear skies.

I took this photo on the Tantramar Marsh near Sackville, New Brunswick with my 50mm Canon lens. Yes I know it's not the best but it's what I had at the moment. I'm seriously looking into a smart telescope from ZWO but am undecided on which one to buy.

View from the Lee Bridge. The Southern States building is to the left.

500mm f/8 1/125
I love this lens. Couldn’t be happier with it.
Tested out macro on random bedroom stuff and blown away by how sharp it is.
Can’t wait for a green light night in ClearOutside to getting nebulae shots.
In the market for a star tracker. What make and model do the Jedi recommend?

This week’s Strawberry Moon. Composite of a 40 frame stack for moon surface and 1 frame for the background glow.

Fujifilm Finepix HS20EXR
[ISO 200 | 1/640s | f5.6] x 40L + [ISO 200 | 1/5s | f5.6] (background)
720 mm Telephoto (Untracked)

Aligned in PIPP, Stacked in Autostakkert, Sharpened in Astrosurface & merged and tweaked in Photoshop.

Colours for the mineral moon were brought out on the unsharpened version and recombined in Photoshop. Same data.

Taken on June 30, 2026 in Bortle 2,
North Island, New Zealand.

Let me know which version you prefer!

Kepler-442 b is a rocky exoplanet located approximately 1,200 light years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Based on current NASA data, it is estimated to be slightly larger than earth, with a radius of about 1.3 Earth radii, and is thought to have a mass of roughly 2-3 earth masses, although it's exact composition remains uncertain.

The planet orbits a K-type main-sequence (orange dwarf) star with an effective temperature of approximately 4,400 K at a distance of roughly 0.41 AU, placing it within the star's habitable zone.

This is a hypothetical visualization created in Blender, loosely informed by the currently known properties of the Kepler-442 system, while the planet's appearance remains entirely unknown.