Hi all,
I'm fairly new to imaging (this is only my 3rd DSO capture, after M51 and M13) and I consider my kit to be at the budget end of the scale.
That said I'm learning a lot from others posts and experiences which has helped me up the learning curve a lot.
This was 31x90s with a Skywatcher 200PDS on an NEQ6 mount, Canon 550d, Altair 60mm guidescope/GPCAM2 mono guide cam, 50% moon and somewhat murky sky conditions (there was a large halo visible around the moon for a lot of the time).
I took only 5 dark frames (it was very late on a school night) and no other calibration frames.
Processed with DSS, Affinity Photo, Astro Flat pro, and a fairly gentle application of Topaz Denoise AI.
It took a few goes at processing to find a balanced image, I still have a lot to learn with respect to techniques such as star masking, use of layers etc.
My next purchase will be a coma corrector, if anyone has experience with either the Skywatcher or the Baader corrector with this scope then I'd be very grateful to hear your experiences.
Thanks for looking,
Rick