Is is possible to use helicon focus to stack sky/star pictures ?

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BulKa59
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Is is possible to use helicon focus to stack sky/star pictures ?

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Hi,

Is is possible to use helicon focus to stack sky/star pictures ?

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Stas Yatsenko
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Re: Is is possible to use helicon focus to stack sky/star pictures ?

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The best way is to try. You need to download the program from our site (http://www.heliconsoft.com/software-downloads/) and test it for 30 days in fully features trial mode.
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Re: Is is possible to use helicon focus to stack sky/star pictures ?

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Surely all of these would be shot with focus at infinity, meaning no there would be no benefit from stacking?
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I doubt. Helicon Focus was originally designed for macro photography, but it can also be applied to other types of images.
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Re: Is is possible to use helicon focus to stack sky/star pictures ?

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I believe that the idea here is to build up the signal of very faint stars so that they show up more clearly by using a series of time exposures. I think there is a program apart from HF which does this, although I can't remember its name. It will also do real focus stacking. As Stas said, try the trial version.
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