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How did you get on with the 294 as a guide cam? I'm thinking of doing the same.

Cheers happy kat. I was surprised with the size of the whale. I expected it to be tiny .

Sombrero 9.25 evolution, asi 294mc. 59 minutes worth of 16 second exposures with darks and flats. Captured in sharpcap, processed with startools.

The whale galaxy, 9.25 Nexstar evolution @6.3 , asi294mc, captured with sharpcap and processed with startools. 27 minutes worth of 16 second exposures, darks and flats applied.

Finally started to teach myself some post processing methods instead of using phone apps. Although a bit over done I'm really pleased with the detail in this pic.  M33 captured a good few months ago . Nexstar evolution 9.25 , zwoasi294 Mc , sharpcap and startools. 158x7 second exposures. Darks and flats applied.

Leo triplet livestacked in sharpcap. 60 ×60 second exposures, 20×darks and flats. 72mm megrez on an evolution mount with a asi294mc. Edited in sharpcap.

M66 and needle galaxy. Live stacked in sharcap . 9 second exposures for a total of 13 minutes on each. 9.25 sct @6.3, asi294mc, Nexstar evolution mount. Darks and flats applied and edited in snapseed.

I didn't  take that as criticism but I would have taken criticism  on here like it was meant to be taken anyway.  I've only just noticed that sattelite  trail myself actually.  The time I have right now for this is precious  little. I've  half heartedly tried  stepping my processing  game up a few times but cant get into it. When my boys a bit older is the time I think I can seriously  try stepping my game up. I've just toned this image down a bit actually  and think I prefer this one.  Still lacking colour but a bit cleaner... thanks.

Just 30 minutes  of 12 second exposures  on this. 9.25 nexstar evolution  and asi294mc.  Snapseed and photoshop  Express.  To my gear out to a dark site with just eyepieces  recently... wow, I had no idea I'd see much detail on andromeda.  Pleadies was pretty impressive  too.

This is after following a beginner's  tutorial  in pi. Think I overdid  some things though.  It's  better and worse.

I know this is far from great but I think I know why things look weird to me when I use proper software. I'm over doing it by following the tutorials  down to a t. I'm putting that down 

Is walking noise the swirling  thing?

Sharpcap.  I have the free trial for pix right now but I do struggle with pc software. I'm going to follow another tutorial  on it today when I get the time but I've tried many over the last couple of years and tend to go back to phone apps. I'll  see how I get on later though. Thanks.

6 hours ago, happy-kat said:

It does appear a stable mount that evolution. Will you be adding more data to this image?

Not on this one but I do plan on saving  individual frames when I go to a dark site.  

Photobombed  and neighbour's  that insist on flood lighting the sky.  Most detail I've ever got with this target though, I'm really happy with it bar the sky.   First go since last winter with the little wo72mm . Asi294mc  on a evolution mount . 60 lights and 20 each of darks and lights.  Photoshop  express and snapseed. 

Can't  seem to catch a break with globs. I did this same target awhile  ago with a dslr and it turned out pretty good but really struggle with the settings on the zwo. Also can never seem to go longer than ten minutes before the clouds come. M13 I think it was just over 8 minutes of ten second exposures  with the 9.25 evo and 294mc.

M33 . I set the gain  way higher than I normally do on this occasion  and it seemed to work well.  I  think I normally worry too much about noise so keep it fairly low. Anyway  field rotation was becoming too much of a problem after half hour  of 18 second exposures.  Zwo294 mc , gain 380, 20 darks and flats.  9.25 nexstar evolution.  Gimp, snapseed, ps express. 

Just found a great noise remover for mobile app. It's the free version of adobe  light room.  Just if anyone is interested in a very quick way of doing this.

Cheers nigel. That's good to know about the 50% on startools. It was only the speed that put me off. I'll  give it another bash.

Thx.  Astro pixel looks like something  I'll  be using from here on in. Should be seeing some improvement from now. I do like the lp  remover on it and the very reasonable  price.

Actually  I did try gimp for a while but I got on better with snapseed. Startools was trialed but my laptop struggled with it.  I've been shying away from processing  really but I'm going to see how I get on with this astro pixel. It's all Greek to me.

I'm a long way from knowing how to do any of that. Literally  downloaded some software last night to try step my game up a bit. I've just been using apps .

I've had many attempts  at m101 and this is the best I've managed.  I find this one really hard  to capture and to stretch  for some reason. Anyway I'm pleased with it. 120 ×15 second lights, 20 dark and 20 flat.  9.25 evolution  @ 6.3 and asi 294mc.  Processed in snapseed and ps Express.  I've just downloaded  the astro pixel  processor  trial so I'm going to have a mess with that.