Starry Landscape Stacker App Reviews

This is the best solution for Milky Way Landscape photography on the Mac; very easy to use, yet still powerful. It fits perfectly in my workflow: I pre-process my RAW files in Aperture, I stack them with Starry Landscape Stacker, and then I can give the final touch to my shots in Pixelmator. This app saves the final composite, but also a version with the mask for the landscape, so you can edit the sky and the landscape separetely in your favourite photo editing software. Highly recommended!

I just went through the tutorials. Very complete! Im looking forward to taking some photos and trying it out.

I just took a series of 4 night shots during a new moon at ISO 3200. Starry Landscape Stacker took the noise right out of the sky, leaving me with great-looking stars.

This program is excellent! It is easy to use and makes stacking, aligning, and blending multiple star shots a breeze. The result is far less noise and pinpoint stars if you take short exposures of the sky. I use a Nikon D800E and if I take 10 exposures each at ISO 6400, f/2.8, 14mm, for 10 seconds each, the result is pinpoint stars and much lower noise then I would have seen with a single ISO 3200 exposure of 25 or 30 seconds. This program respects your input images’ color space and bit depth, so you can import 16-bit TIFFs in the ProPhoto RGB color space and the result will be a 16-bit TIFF in ProPhoto RGB.

This works exceptionally well! I tried for hours to get photoshop to align 11 images and did it with this app in minutes. My only complaint is that I can’t seem to find a way to modify the sky or ground after save WITHOUT redoing it all. For feature request, it would be cool if I could save the settings for the mask. This way I can go back and fix something later without re-doing it all.

I’ve used many different pieces of software for astrophotography for stacking planetary and deep sky images. The one area that has always suffered for the astrophotographer has been nightscapes. Like another reviewer, I tried with mixed, usually poor, results in Photoshop using smart objects and stacking trying to achieve what Mr. Hill’s software does in just several clicks. This is an excellent piece of software for anyone who points their camera upwards into the starry sky!!