



So i took this photo on a plane hoping to catch most of the stars, since in the naked eye, that view had tons of em. so i wanted to catch it on photo and i got this. are these stars or not? (all the tiny dots and the visible line)
[23 mm • f/1.6 • ISO 2500 • 15 s] × 100 Light frames + 250 Dark frames (25 min total integration time)
UPD: Reddit heavily compressed the image. For the best quality, download the image to your device and view it locally.
Stacked in Sequator.
Processed in Siril: green noise removal, background extraction, colour calibration, saturation adjustment, and starless stretching using StarNet++ to create separate star and Milky Way masks.
Denoised in GraXpert.
Finalized in Photoshop: final curve adjustments, saturation, colour calibration, and channel mixing.
Untracked, shot using only a smartphone mounted on a static tripod under Bortle 5 skies.
Shot on a Xiaomi 14T Pro using the main Light Fusion 900 sensor.
Explore this region of the sky: Legacy Survey Viewer
[ 23 mm • F/1.6 • ISO 2500 • 15s ] x 100 L + 100 D (25 min total integration time)
Stacked in Sequator.
Processed in Siril: green noise removal, background extraction, colour calibration and saturation, starless stretching using StarNet++ for separate star and Milky Way masks.
Finalized in Photoshop: final curves corrections, saturation, color calibration, and channel mixing.
Untracked, shot using only a smartphone mounted on a static tripod in a Bortle 5 location.
Shot on Xiaomi 14T Pro using the main Light Fusion 900 sensor.