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wow what a difference between the 2 they are both nice, have you tried to combine both images.

i hope you do'nt mind i had a go but could only use a copy from your posted images.

60/40 combine 

Tingtings-M31.tif 

this was taken with my old skywatcher skymax 127 with an eos 10d sorry but i foget the amount of subs and no darks flats ar any of that stuff just didnt know i had just joined here to find out what the heck i was doing and no body warned me about what i was getting myself into .

early 2012 its m42 just incase you cant make out what it is.

i wish my 1st dso looked like this! lol, nicely done, i can see you doing rather good at AP

+1 for that

well done nice image specially for a first .

absolutely brilliant if i got something a tenth of the quality i would be jumping for joy but yours is WOW indeed well done.

here is my first dso taken with an eos 300d tmount onto a 127 mak mount was a skywatcher supatrack 3 30 second subs no darks no flats stacked in dss october 2009