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10 hours ago, bottletopburly said:

Did you sample stars for colour? Core showing Green try sampling a selection of the core for colour then press sample  m31 works quite well this way and use the rgb sample to see if green channel is dominant then knock green channel down until you see green almost disappear  that a nice image well done .

Thanks for the advice. I'll be honest, I don't if I used the stars for colour or not. I'm very much still at the 'randomly click stuff until stuff looks better' stage. I have a lot to learn. I'll have another go at Startools later in the week when I have a bit of time to spare.

130pds sat on an NEQ6. Unmodded 450d. QHY5L-II guide cam (with QHY's Mini guide scope). Processed in Startools.

(20x 60s lights, 20x 120s lights, 20x darks, 20x flats captured after the event (I forgot about the flats! Schoolboy error)

It was captured in a moonlit sky, so I'm sure the setup can do much better. I'm going to need a lot of practice though 🙂

My first image since picking up a 130pds. No a scratch on some of the images here, but I'm so happy with my new little photon collector. Looking forward to the next few months

In my experience SSR's always fail closed.

I'm a controls engineer, and seen plenty of dead SSR's over the years. Don't recall ever seeing one failed open.

My printer is in an enclosure with heat and smoke detection. It will isolate and raise the alarm if anything goes wrong. As yet untested, and I hope it never gets tested! I do leave it running unattended in the garage, but never leave the house so I'm around to hopefully catch any failures before it gets out of hand.