Like the title suggests, here is my first attempt at a galaxy.
Hard to believe that it's taken almost a year to get my RC8 going correctly, but it now has a motorized Moonlite focuser, the correct spacers for the camera, a second counterweight on the dovetail for balance, the dew heater installed on the secondary and most importantly it's finally collimated!
So after all that - the planets aligned with no family duties, my mate's property in the country being available, on a clear night, without too much moon etc. to give this thing a proper hit out.
This is just 2.5 hrs of LUM (10min subs) and an hour of each RG&B (5min subs) from the dark site, with a further 4 hrs of Ha added from home.
Needs another night's data to clear up the noise, smooth it out and get some detail going - as I've probably pushed what little data I have pretty hard
Would welcome any suggestions for tutorials etc. as my LRGB processing need work!
Bigger one is
HERE - don't look to closely! lol
