Cygnus

[Spad]

Ay oop!

Last night I took an image of Cygnus using a SW SA2, with a 50mm lens on a Pentax K5ii. 24 x 1min exposures with 10 light, 20 dark, and 15 bias frames.

Stacked Siril, the split in Starnet. PP'd in Ps and Lr.

Can somebody run an eye over this and give me some tips to make my future shooting better?

Ta

 

[wimvb]

Very nice. Is your camera astro modded (ir cut filter removed)? It seems to pick up Ha quite nicely. When you calibrate the images in stacking, try without darks, but activate "cosmetic correction" in DSS. Darks may only introduce more noise, without correcting anything. With an uncooled camera, you should always make sure they don't do more harm than good. In post processing, avoid making the background very dark, ie, avoid clipping pixels (difficult to see on my mobile device). The Milky Way is quite bright compared to the rest of the sky.