Thank you Marc. I'm looking forward to seeing your efforts
Thank you Michael. I've found myself a little spot out west about 30 mins from home. It's Bertole 3 compared to 8 at home. It was a last minute decision when I saw the cloud coming over and I checked clearoutside and the dark site was clear all night
As far as the CLS/CCD is concerned, I had a CLS before and couldn't work out why I was struggling with it. It turns out that a lot of my problems where because the standard CLS doesn't have an IR cut filter. That's why I bought the CCD version. You are right, it's harder to process with this filter, and the brighter the sky the harder it becomes.
As far as the soft colours go, this is a challenge I've had with this modified camera since I got it. I find that it's easier to work with at ISO400 but then it's harder to capture feint things. If I just lift the saturation on the whole image, it pulls out all sorts of bad colour balances and artifacts and the tone stays soft anyway, it just becomes brighter. It's is something I'm working on though.
Cheers
Ryan