Heard a guy at the star party say he never edits his astrophotos, just posts the raw stack. Kinda blew my mind.

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Oh man, that raw stack thing is wild. You HAVE to stretch the data, it's like 90% of the hobby. The camera just doesn't see it the way our eyes do.

the_nina19d ago

Wait, what? I saw someone post a raw stack of the Orion Nebula once and it looked like a gray blob. How do you even see anything?

andrew_gonzalez8819d ago

Yeah, it's all about the processing. The raw data is there but you gotta stretch it to see the colors and details. It's like developing a photo from a negative.