M101

[brrttpaul]

clear night so gave it a whirl, I left everything run over night. My processing skills still leave something to be desired but glad when I woke this morning that the guiding was still pretty much spot on . 112x 180 secs

[faulksy]

lovely paul

forget the colour and this is similar to how me and mapster were viewing it last new moon. magnificent 

[brrttpaul]

Thanks Mike must admit im starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel better now (still got a long way to go though lol)

[wimvb]

That's a few hours well spent! Lovely image. Once you have the data, you can always reprocess it as your skill improves. That's what cloudy nights are for.

Thanks for sharing

[brrttpaul]

and thats my next to do thing tonight, make a few copies before calibrating them then experimenting, I did notice in the calibration box>advanced it had "pedestal" that was on 100 so may play with that and a few other things and take notes which works best, I will also try DSS and see if there is any difference