This is my first attempt at stacking star fields using Deep Sky Stacker since moving to the Indianapolis suburbs. It's been a while since I tried stacking faint objects like this, and I have a host of new targets in the summer sky. Facing west off my balcony, I tried to locate a clump of objects below
Coma Berenices because it looked like a fairly busy piece of sky (and there is light pollution to the south blocking my views of the Milky Way and all its jewels).
I stacked 67 light frames and 18 dark frames, and uploaded the results to
nova.astrometry.net to help me label and identify interesting objects (green), then I identified the objects that were too faint for the system to pick up (white).
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| Each sub (light frame) was taken at 75mm, f/4.5, 4 sec, ISO 1600 |
Since this was only zoomed in to 75mm, I'll have to try again to take designated shots of M64 and M100. I don't think I can check them off my Messier object checklist until I get a little more detail. It looks promising that I can even make out a faint blob at 75mm with only 67 subs!
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