Astrophotography Made Quick & Easy - SharpCap Live-Stacking Demonstration and Tutorial

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0:00:00 Introduction reel
0:01:51 Getting started
0:07:09 Focusing
0:12:21 Taking a flat master
0:15:28 Aligning to the Owl and Surfboard
0:21:56 Starting the first live-stack
0:25:16 Discussing the frame rejection methods
0:27:40 Checking in on the Owl and Surfboard stack
0:30:47 moving to M13
0:32:35 starting of the M13 stack
0:35:54 ending of the M13 stack
0:39:27 aligning to the Moon
0:42:25 moon capture
0:43:20 aligning to M57
0:45:29 checking the settings for capture of M57
0:46:49 starting the M57 stack
0:48:47 ending the M57 stack
0:50:48 change of filter and l-extreme flat master capture
0:51:52 start of the Wall capture
0:54:42 checking on the Wall capture
0:56:22 ending of the Wall capture and attack of the Starlinks!
0:57:19 ending the night
0:58:15 signing off
0:59:07 the image montage



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there's a slight A/V sync error on the "taking a flat master" part of the video, but it still works well enough I think.

You can download SharpCap here at https://www.sharpcap.co.uk/ - I'm in no way sponsored or anything like that, I pay for and use this software by my own choice :)

First off, this ended up way longer than I'd expected! - not because sharpcap is inherently complex to use, it isn't! But, I wanted to document what i'm doing and why to remove some guesswork for anyone watching and maybe wanting to follow along.

I will do my best to timestamp the whole thing into relevant sections for you all so hopefully you can find what you want quickly :)

In this video I decided to try and take you all on a little tour of space with me, taking photographs of a variety of objects, and all this is done under the full moon (98% actual) and bortle 7 skies, so hardly perfect conditions.

My hope is that this will help a few people get started with this really quite quick and easy method to take astrophotos!