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M33 same equip. 45 × 60 seconds. Darks and flats applied. Galaxys are hard in my humble oppinion. I've tried four or five now and none have any colour to them.

These two done with the same equip but only 10x 60 seconds. No flats or darks but I should of.

Nexstar evolution mount ,wo 72mm asi294mc .58×60 secs, 20 flats and 20 darks. Had to stop after an hour as the fanning effect from field rotation was getting close to the flame so lots of cropping. Stacked in sharpcap tweaked in gimp and photoshop Express.

Thanks for the info, I'll have a look for that.

I'm going go pick your brains a bit if you dont mind. So I'm thinking if star trailing was going to occur at this fl it already would have, so now with the field rotation. The longer I expose the more I will have to crop because the fanning effect from stacking will be increased?

Mid alt I mean.

Mud alt = less rotation, max exposure?

I think I have seen a gradient tool , next time.

Oh and happy new year.

28-60 second exposures, 15 dark, 15 flat. Nexstar evolution mount, wo72 mm megrez. 0.8 reducer/flattened. Asi 294mc and a baader moon and sky glow filter. Stacked in sharpcap , post processed in gimp and the android photoshop. I've had this mount up to 115 seconds without any trailing that I notice , a better eye might. When weather permits I'm going to try longer, just to see when things start looking wrong. I dont know if was really good conditions and I just coincidentally got all the settings right on the cam but it appeared that filter really helped. I have tried it on a few nebula and it seemed good but seemed to work against me on andromeda. Not had a chance on any other galaxys yet but I'm reading mixed opinions on galaxy's and these filters? Thoughts on that please. North america nebula. Orange zone.

Thanks . All credit to the camera. It feels like cheating a bit but I'm ok with that. It'll be good to see what it can do once I get familiar with sharpcap and get out of my orange zone backyard.

I've had a few cracks at m33 now. It's a [removed word]. I'm going to keep trying this was about 30 minutes of 25 secs on a 9.25 act live stacked with the 294 on the evo mount again. Messed with in gimp.

Rossete was 9 minutes.

Hello all. I had a crack at sharpcap steve. I took these two images on the wo 72mm megrez on the evo mount. With a asi294 mc. They were live stacked but not really got to grips properly with the stretching on the fly in that yet so I did a bit of post processing with gimp. The horse was 28 minutes worth of 30 second exposures. The rossete was a lot less but I cant remember for certain as it was a while back. I'm thinking I'm going to be doing both eaa and ap depending on the night ect. This is the second computer I've tried startools with now and neither have been enough to run it properly so it looks like I'll be sticking with gimp for now. There were no darks or lights added with these as I've only just figured that out. Next time though. Oh I used a 0.8 reducer too. Cheers.

Yeah I think it's going to happen but it's not quite yet. I might be wrong though.

That looks like a guide I could follow

Is sharpcap recognizing dslrs now?

Oh I know. This is just my tempory. Method. Raws are fine on my laptop it's just the raws through astrotoaster. It would be quicker if I sketched every exposure. This is just my temp way until I can get out. I dont even know what this is called what I'm doing. I believe it was created for eaa but how I use it is something I'm between eaa and ap?? I dont know but I like it.

Also using the jpeg for now as my laptop struggles with raw on astrotoaster, but I will be going down the raw route when I can get out and do it.

Ie darks, flats ect. Not astrotoaster but the manual way.

I think it's the processing as I just guess at things for now. I'm stuck in the light polluted back yard for now so I just shoot jpeg and go through astrotoaster. As soon as I can get to darker skies I'm going to put a proper unrushed effort in.

Tidied this one up as best as I can too.

Couple more from this morning. Wo 72mm megrez , nikon d5300 , evolution mount. Orion was 53 50 sec exposures at 800 and andromeda was about 30. Actually it was the other way round. This is about my fourth attempt at andromeda. Is it just me or is this one really hard to do anything with?

I really need to stop shying away from these post processing softwares.

I will definitely try that next time and also next time will probably be a proper photography effort with darks ect, rather than letting astrotoaster do it all. Thanks for the tips, always welcome the tips.