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View submission: Winter night sky over Mount Rainier
So are all landscape astrophotos (tracker and stacked) just 2 photos photoshopped together?
Comment by Kanel0728 at 08/03/2025 at 03:39 UTC
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Generally yes. If you want to get enough integration time for any amount of detail (bare minimum 20-30 mins, ideally several hours) you're going to need to track the target through the sky, and thus the ground would be blurry. You could take a landscape pic at a low focal length (20mm or less) with a 20-30" exposure and get decent results in a single picture, but you're not going to get any real detail and your image will have a lot of noise.
Comment by blerggle at 08/03/2025 at 01:28 UTC
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I've done both. For me just stacking un tracked photos without composite is what I do now. Trackkng with composite is fun if you like to really spend time in post.