[ChrisV (Chris)]

I ironed out the problem with my newt (the camera was tilted to the coma corrector), so its less imperfect now.

Captured on 12 - 14 Sep - ASI071MC on 8" F5 newt. I got 6.5 hours with UV/IR filter and 1.5 hours with Halpha filter. Processed in PI, mixed the red channel with Ha-alpha. Attached is a compressed version. Might be a bit overblown. I got a bit overwhelmed by different blending option and trying various options to enhance detail.

And another bonus was that I found out why I had blotchy backgrounds in the past - was using local normalisation during pre-processing incorrectly (increasing the scale from default 128 to 512 - got rid of it). That'll teach me to blindly follow online guides without checking the details!!

The first one is OSC + H-alpha (bit too much colour boost on this one), then next is just OSC