I wanted to test my processing skills. Horsehead with only 6 30s lights, 6400ISO, no calibration images.

[MKHACHFE]

Please be gentle. This was purely a test to see what i could extract from the only 6 useable frames i manged to get from a Bortle 2.5 site before dew ruined the rest of the evening. 

 

- Star Adventurer Mini

- Unmodified Canon 4000d

- 70-300mm Canon F5.6 at 300mm

- 6 x 30sec lights

- no calibration files

- ISO 6400

Obviously there is HEAVY noise reduction going on , which was done in Imagenomic Noiseware. Stacking in DSS and procesing in Photoshop and Lightroom. Image is cropped .

i'm suprised it came out so decent to be honest. I added the star spikes for fun. 

[Chris33benoit]

I like that picture.  You can see detail from the Horsehead!  

[ollypenrice]

Back off the noise reduction! It dominates the image. Don't be frightened of a bit of grain.

Olly