Cygnus nifty fifty 3 hours

[leemanley]

Taken over 2 nights last week, made up of 80 of 137 120 sec subs.
A little bit disheartened with this one, I thought there should be lots more detail in this, given there was no moon and the focus was apparently good, however it'll serve as the base of any more subs I can add at a later date.



Cygnus, Canon 550d @ F4.5, Heq5Pro, guided with ED80 and PHD2, captured with BYEOS, FWHM of 2.6. DSS & CS6.

Any pointers as to how to resolve more detail gladly appreciated.

Thanks Lee 
 

[wxsatuser]

Longer subs may help.

I look to at least 5minute subs, which I can normally achieve on most nights.

With the histogram at 25% may I add.

[jgs001]

Doesn't look too bad.. I agree, longer subs will make a big difference. I'm surprised you were limited in sub length like that. With the nifty fifty on my HEQ5, I'm easily able to hit 5 minutes without guiding, with guiding, you should be good for hours.

When you stacked the images in DSS, did you stick them all in together, or separate them over multiple groups ? If you put them all in together, this may have caused issues in the end results, as the calibration frames would get combined also and applied to both nights sets of data.

Try a restack with the data split into separate groups... Then add some 5 minute subs to it, and make sure you put those in their own group also.

[Pete Presland]

it does not look too bad plenty of stars, colour balance looks a little off, a bit blue to me

[Knight of Clear Skies]

I think you've got some nice detail in there but the colours are quite odd to my eye. I've been struggling to bring out colour on my Cygnus images recently (also taken at 50mm), and I've got results like that when I've increased the saturation too much. There is also a green cast to the image.

I don't know what image processing tool you are using. I'd suggest reducing the saturation and reducing the green channel. I'd also consider using a levels tool to adjust the mid-point lower - this would take some of the milkyness out of the image. Hope that is some help.