Milky Way Exposure Stacking with Manual Alignment (Noise Reduction) in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial I walk through a method of manual image alignment on stacked astrophotography exposures for when Adobe Photoshop's Auto-Align Layers function fails. This particular tutorial uses Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop CC or CS6 Extended.

This video is a response to many of the questions that I have received in the comments of my original landscape astrophotography image stacking video shown here:    • Landscape Astrophotography Noise Redu...  

The photos used in this demo were made on the Sony RX100III point and shoot from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia.

Many thanks to Josh Woodward and his amazing Creative Commons music library:
Music - "She Dreams in Blue" by Josh Woodward. Free download: http://joshwoodward.com/song/SheDream... (CC-BY)

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Sony RX100III (http://amzn.to/1Q4JKs9) (http://bhpho.to/1Wqe85k)
Sony a6000 (http://amzn.to/1Q4JGsr) (http://bhpho.to/1OhYh4x)
Sony 55mm/1.8 (http://amzn.to/1NjONUL) (http://bhpho.to/1KRUnaV)