Any volunteers to try processing my widefields?

[Delboy_Hog]

Hi folks,

Thanks for dropping in to this post! 

Having received some very helpful tips on how to get DSS to work (pretty much user error on my part, as I suspected!) I now have 3 separate tiff files of my stacked, widefield data...but no processing software...or knowledge of how to use that processing software even if I had it!    I'm sure there's some reasonable (well, useable at least) data in there, so I'd love to know what more experienced hands could do with it.

So, would anyone like to have a go for me?  Here are brief descriptions and a jpg version of the best I could get out of the data using only the sliders in DSS, so you know roughly what you'd be playing with:

File 1: 

Widefield of Cassiopeia from fairly dark Cornish skies, Canon 1100d, 18-55mm lens @ 18mm.  Stack of 70 x 30 second lights, 60 equivalent darks, all at ISO 3200.

Link:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/mkhoh3w4bbysrit/1_Untouched_Cornwall_Cassope_tiff.TIF

File 2:

Widefield of Cassiopeia from not-so-dark Wakefield skies, Canon 1100d, 18-55mm lens @ 18mm.  Stack of 30 x 120 second lights, 10 darks, all at ISO 100.

Link:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/96gczdl5mf7l4qb/2_Untouched_wakefield_widefield_cassope_tiff.TIF

File 3:

Widefield of Andromeda, Canon 1100d, 18-55mm lens @ 55mm.  Stack of 50 x 30s lights and around 30 darks, Can't remember the ISO but I think it was 400.

Link:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/f0x4w29m6lojzn4/3_untouched_widefield_M31_tiff.TIF

Very grateful to anyone who wants to have a go at these, I'd be fascinated to see what you can create, and whether there is actually anything reasonable in the data, or whether I need to completely rethink how I go about capturing it in the first place!

Cheers,

Derek

[AstroFrog]

Hello mate,

I'm in much the same position as you, so can't help much I'm afraid.  I only downloaded GIMP myself a few days back and will try and spend some time on it this weekend.  Sure there are more experienced folks on here up for the challenge, but as I understand you can lighten / darken backgrounds as required using curves etc, which might be all you need.

If I figure out how to do it myself, I'll have a crack at these and post what I manage, though it might not be much better I'm afraid!  Catch up soon mate, Fred