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You need something like this...

Restacked and it's definitely the K-S clipping that's caused it. I used Average this time and it's much better and wow, that is one fast moving comet. Even taking 30 x 4 second shots the movement it showed in this short time has really surprised me. Thanks again Kyle Allen for pointing me in the right direction. 👍

Cheers Kyle, I believe I did use K-S. I will restack and see what happens !

Mods, I've posted this in the wrong place, could you please move to the Imaging - Widefield and Special Events & Comets section ! Thanks.

Definitely need a filter for this one. This an un-filtered two and a quarter hours of integration time. 45 x 180 sec subs with calibration frames. Very noisy trying to pull any real detail out of it.

Imaged our transient friend last night and the coma shows a strange artifact. Obviously something with my scope but really annoying. I can process it out but it's got me stumped. Second pic is a crop of the autosave.tif after stacking, pre-processing.

Fantastic work. I'd be extremely happy if that were mine.

Lovely. The Samyang 135mm f2 is a wonderful lens, I haven't seen one bad pic from anybody who uses it.

Stunning !!

There isn't a "one rig does it all" but I'd echo what everyone else said about the mount. It's paramount (no pun intended...)

Bortle 6 officially, but I'd say closer to 5 in reality as I can see the Milky Way once dark adapted.

I was imaging last night, only managed an hour on the Cocoon Nebula. What caught my eye was the artifacts showing on the stars. The thing is this hasn't showed up before. Up to now my star images were circular. The only thing that I have done since my last imaging session is cleaned my objective lens (carefully...blower brush, lens tissue\fluid then a very gentle polish with a microfibre cloth). I'm very careful handling the scope, no knocks etc. If this is aperture vignetting how can this suddenly appear, and if it's pinched optics the same question as nothing has changed barring the lens clean. Here's an image to show the effect - the little notch at the eight o'clock position on the brighter stars (low rez but you can see it). Hope anyone can shed some light on it and hopefully a fix !

That is top drawer. Very well done 👍

Unmodded DSLR with no filters, 24 x180 sec subs, plus the usual calibration frames. I'm not getting hung up about too many stars on this as I like to see it as is, if you will. I'm just so happy that I'm finally able to capture these beautiful objects after many years as a purely visual observer.

Nice one, lovely colour in the Dumbbell 👍

0.5 sec @ ISO 12800, slightly out of focus but it was a spur of the moment grab. 20/07/2020 00:10 hrs.

Final image after much faffing about. A bit noisy but it was a very warm night.

Cheers Mark, I'll try. Not having a great deal of success with that so far though. I'll keep plugging away I'm using Annie's Actions in PS to try and reduce them.

The Witches Broom from last night, my first attempt on this. 24 x 180 sec subs, no filter, the usual bias, darks & flats. Cropped a bit because I didn't frame it as well as I could\should have, had one of those nights with a few gremlins and wanted to get something before the clouds eventually rolled in.

I'd be more than happy with that ! Western Veil is my next target - hopefully tonight if Clear Outside is correct.

M31 20x120 sec subs, no filter, taken as the Moon was starting to get a bit too high for comfort and the sky getting lighter. Overall I'm happy with this considering. NGC 6992 again 20x120 sec subs, no filter. Needs a lot more integration time, a first attempt and the start of an ongoing project.

Ah! Thanks, I do eventually intend to connect APT up to the mount at some stage, it's just I've only x2 USB ports on my laptop these will both be used for my camera's. Looks like a USB hub is on the shopping list! Thanks again.

I'll be using APT for planning my subs and using PHD2 for guiding. I don't have EQ Mod installed so I'm using the Synscan hand controller for locating objects, which I'm happy with and comfortable using. My question is will it be ok to use just the hand controller to locate my objects then use APT\PHD2 for the previously mentioned uses only? ie: I won't have to connect APT to my mount?

DeepSky Stacker for stacking, the rest with Photoshop or at a push, GIMP.