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thank you very much folks! I really appreciated you taking your time to review and play with my data. I learned a lot with your comments and suggestions!

adding some numbers: For the "Pleiades" project: 15 lights * 300 sec ( 01:15 hours ) 20 darks * 300 sec ( 01:40 hours ) 100 flats 100 bias For the "sombrero powermate 2x" project: 20 lights * 90 sec ( 30 mins ) 25 darks * 90 sec ( 40 mins ) 100 flats 100 bias For the "NGC5128 galaxy" project: 6 lights * 180 sec (18 min) 12 lights * 300 sec (1 hour) 11 darks * 180 sec (33 min) 3 darks * 300 sec (15 min) (but can take 01:40 hours more form "Pleiades" project) total 01:55 hours 100 flats 100 bias "NGC3324 nebulosa" project: 9 lights * 300 secs ( 45min) I know it is not the best time of exposures, but what a pro can do with this data?

Yes, Rosette folder is not a good example, my bad. The most complete shots are in Sombrero (gain and powermate x2), Pleiades, NGC5128 folders. I'm going to take your advice to build a library of darks. It's a pain to do that during the same night. Thank you! I am willing to pay if they have a good portfolio, for sure. Thank you! I will take your advice! I added stacked files to the google drive folder to make life more easy. But they were stacked with ASIStudio/ASIDeepStack which I don't know if it the best choice (thats is why I did not upload it before) thank you all again!

Thank you folks! Im proud but feels like I can be even more proud haha. Maybe "ugly" was an exaggeration...they are regular (or maybe they are the best that I can get from this one shoot camera, I don't know) @teoria_del_big_bang the IKI project is awesome! I will give it a shoot and play with their material! thank you! but that is the oposite case. I still need to validate my own data. Here I uploaded my raw data for some targets and my edits: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eNU66DnO0uiyZJBJcBe4kLIfV8iv7lGr?usp=sharing hopefully someone can take a look and help me to understand. thank you again!

thank you @Shimrod I Registered there but looks like their email service is not working, I never received the confirmation email. Also sent a support email but no response 😕

Hello, I am kind on n00b on the Astrophotography processing world and I was wondering if my ugly final images are because of bad raw material (bad lights, darks flats, etc), or because bad stacking or because bad processing. So it would be great to see what experienced people can do with my raw material. Just so see if im starting from crap material or if I just sucks processing it. I feels like there is a lot of information on my fit files that Im unable to extract and come up to the light. I have good equipment and Bortle 4 sky with light pollution filters so my guess is that im doing a bad processing. But I need to confirm that so I can put the focus on improve one of the two parts (maybe both?!). Skywatcher Espirit 100 APO ASI071MC Pro Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Optolong L-eNhance Filter (for nebula) Optolong L-Pro Light Pollution (for galaxy) So...my question is: Is there any place here in the forum or outside in where a Pro can take my raw files and process them to show me if the good data is there? or a service? I attached some of my latests processed pics and here the link to google drive folder with my raw data if someone can take a look https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eNU66DnO0uiyZJBJcBe4kLIfV8iv7lGr?usp=sharing thank you in advance!

I just attach here good calibration with original hand control (Synscan) to compare with previous (starsense bad calibration)

Hey, sorry to re-open this topic but I have the same issue. Did you resolve the issue? The "StarSense for sky-watcher" replaces the original Synscan Hand controller. I have everything well connected: AZEQ6 mount hand control socket rj45 <--> Synscan hub box rj45 socket StarSense Hand control bottom mini USB <---> PC USB StarSense Hand control top rj11 <--- > StarSense hub box aux 1 StarSense hub box aux 2 <----> StarSense Camera rj11 socket And PHD2 detected everything. I can control the mount via onscreen joystick or via other software. Problem is that PHD2 calibration send long RA pulses and calibration fails. If I handle config to pass the calibration (like bigger star area) then the guide process is a mess (again, large RA pulses every time) But If I disconnect Starsense hand control and reconnect the original Synscan control, then the calibration is very nice and guide too. Any ideas?