just got in mate is ther any chance you can post the orignal stack pic ? a was gonna say use dss theres some good vids on you tube as well on how to get the best out of dss every thing will come in time and before ya no it ya will be well on ya way ,but it looks like ya have got things sorted the moons up now so just gonna get the scopes out if ya ever need a chat i can send ya my mobile number and a will call ya back no probs keep at it a nice little prigrame to check out is photoscape (download.com very safe and great site for free programes of all kinds they have a search box just type it in) photoscape is great and is easy to use and lets you tinker but gimp is just as good download plugins for that gimp and its real heavy duty,

clear skies pat

Morning

I've uploaded the origional stacked tiff to my website.

It can be downloaded from the link below.

I'd use save target as, as its a 58MB file.

http://www.tibbles.co.uk/cassieopeia.html

Neil

wow should have converted down cool will take a look in a sec i just wanted to see how much color was there did you run it through dss again and play with the color ,,saturation lume ? give it a whirl also in the top right corner you can darken or lighten the image before stack did you do a star count best to use between 40 and 50 cheers pat

Last night, I sat up all night and stacked some images in Deep Sky Stacker, taking screenshots all the way and writing down what I did as I went. Hopefully this can answer a lot of questions and get the new blood in the game well on their way to adding to the richness of images proliferating amateur astronomy.

kitchen cabinet

That's quite a start! You can be proud of those. Clear skies!

Isabelle

Thanks for your comments, I'm waiting for another clear night now, so that I can have another go and also get some more Darks and Flats as well.

I believe you get flat images by covering the lens with something like a cloth or paper and shining a light through it. Is this correct ?

Neil