My first attempt at astro photography

[VigdisVZ]

Its burned out in the blacks but it's tempting to do so when working with vignetted and gradient material. Check into manually removing the gradient if you havent taken any flats.

[vertigo262]

Starting to figure it out. 

I have not had time to perfect my drift alignment, but figuring out processing and such. 

This is pretty blurry and my alignment was off, but my first stack with lots of images. this is 102 images of orion nebula at 30 seconds a frame.

looks better, but the bluryness is pretty bad. also, I converted my canon 7D to full spectrum. Think this helped, but don't have a reference before conversion.

I'm also trying to figure out why longer exposures I get this white background, I'm assuming the camera is burning in the light pollution. which stops me from having exposures longer then about  100 seconds

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