I recently took some pictures of Andromeda with a SA-GTI and a lumix g85 with the lumix 100-300mm, but the noise of the final image is really bad. Here is the first picture taken with a total of 2.5 hours (315*30s):

With this noise, I thought it was waking noise due to the almost perfect polar alignment. Since I don’t have a dedicated computer and autoguider to dither, I just did it manually by moving the axis of the mount a bit to move the object on the sensor every half hour. For reference, the object stayed within the center cell of the grid of thirds, so I’d say I moved it a few hundred pixels every time in different directions. Here is the result (293*30s):

(Both pictures are processed in siril with green noise removed at the end) The noise stripes are smaller, but there is still a lot of noise in my opinion. It this due to the sort total exposure, or might it be walking noise? How can I reduce the noise without buying new equipment?

  • lefty7283@lemmy.worldM
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    14 days ago

    Are you moving the mount in just one axis? Or doing both RA and DEC movements at the same time? You might also want to dither more frequently, especially with how many 30” subs you can get in a half hour. Even that amount of walking noise will add up