TCF

As far as I know The Original ASIAIR and the ASIAIR PRO use the same software. My guess is there are a lot more Pros around than the original so if you go to the Facebook page there are more discussions of the pro than the other .  ZWO use their Facebook page to update users about the software and any updates . The software is the same but will be used differently by either ASIAIR.. Hope that helps.

Tam

17 hours ago, jindivik said:

TCF, Thank you! This has at least given me something to work with.  I "Stretched" the images in the Asi Fits viewer which made them much brighter to stack.  I then stacked in Registax, i don't have any dark, bias, etc files so this is just 20x 20sec exposures.  It is by no means even a good standard but as my first ever deep sky image i'm very happy to even come out with something at least a little recognisable.  As you say, the learning curve is absolutely huge (and a little frustrating) haha

No problem as I said for beginners its a steep learning curve, you will get lots of help on here its just a case of asking. Another good piece of software is PixInsight but pricey so have a good look around and see what is there or more importantly what you can afford, its an expensive hobby too. Tam

23 hours ago, jindivik said:

I'm an absolute novice and only recently got my camera (224MC).  I've been having a little play with it though on the one clear night i've had so far.  Got some images of the ring nebula but a bit lost with something, if i open the images with the ASI Fits viewer they are nice and bright but when i open them with a program like Autostakkert or Registax, all my images are extremely dark and hard to see any detail at all.  Can anyone shed some light on this? 

Other than that the programs seem pretty easy to get to grips with (so far) for a complete novice 

Jindivik you will find  that this game is a very steep learning curve, the reason your images are very dark is probably you haven't stretched them yet, how many images have you taken? try using something like Gimp which is free and you can stretch them in that. I have ASI Studio but I haven't used it for imaging yet as I use the ASIAIR for imaging then PixInsight for processing these and that is also a very steep curve, so as a relatively newbie myself read about stretching images there's plenty on line for you to learn from.