Daf1983

I have imaged about 3 times this year in North Wales. Like many I don't set up unless the forecast in good enough to confidently leave my set up out all night. Also, work and young children limit available nights. It's frustrating, but I feel it's still worth it for the excitement of a crystal clear night when everything comes together. However, I feel I can't justify spending much on astro gear these days

That's my home town! Where about were these taken?

Ok, this is my 3rd (and final) attempt!! I'm much happier with this one. I did this all in Photoshop, I think the stretch in Siril was a bit too aggressive, giving it the 'fake' look of the last attempt.

Hmmm, I hadn't noticed that! I have no idea why the image is 10,000 x 10,000, it certainly wasn't on purpose!! The FOV is slightly smaller because after restacking I had some artefacts which I cropped out. I'm still not happy with it to be honest, so I will have another go tonight. Thanks for your comments

Had another go at this data last night. I restacked everything this time without the bias frames(I noticed that they were at a different gain to the other frames), and the results we're much less noisy. Still not completely happy with the processing(looks a bit 'fake'). But an improvement I think😬

Thanks! It's the background I tend to struggle with in processing, I will have another go and look out for this.

1st time out imaging in months because of work, kids and mainly clouds! This is my 2nd attempt at M45, taken over 2 nights, to give about 8 hours of data. I think I've overdone it a bit is processing, and made the image a bit noisy. But I'm out of practice and it's the best I've managed this far. Let me know what you think. Processing done in Siril and Photoshop. Let me know what you think, CC welcome as always Thanks Dafydd

First time imaging for over 2 months due to work, life and clouds. Stupidly(considering the moon) trying out m31, but it's just nice to have the scope out again

Hmm, you might me right. I'm only just starting with Pixinsight, so I might have pressed something along the way that has clipped the histogram🙈

I used the Evostar 80ED and Zwo 533mc👍 Those subs look good, I look forward to see the final result

First time shooting this target, captured about 4 hours of data last week using the l-extreme filter and the equipment in my signature. Calibrated with darks, flats, dark flats and bias frames. Really struggled processing this, but this is my best effort so far. Used DSS to stack the data, and mostly Pixinsight for my post processing. My first effort doing a false Hubble Palette, so any CC would be welcome. Thanks Dafydd

Looks like the l-enhance is working nicely! Great obsy build, I'm not at all jealous😬

Thanks for the kind comments!

First time out in over two months due to the weather and work commitments. Also my first time shooting this target, and a first outing for some new gear. A newly belt modded HEQ5, L-extreme filter, EAF and ASIair pro. I'm very pleased with all this new gear. ASIair is just a dream to use compared to RPi and Stellarmate/Ekos. The auto focuser worked without any problem, and the HEQ5 was guiding at half it's usual RMS, keeping steady at 0.4-0.6 all night. This is about 8 hours of 3 minute subs. Calibrated with darks, flats and flat darks, and shot using my Evostar 80ED and Zwo ASI 533mc. Processing was done in Siril and PS. CC welcome as always Dafydd

This was waiting for me when I returned from my holiday this afternoon. Thanks @nephilim. Clear outside is forecasting a couple of clear nights aswell😁