After seeing some amazing short exposure stacked photos at Astrobin I wanted to try my luck with my ZWOASI178MC and took a series of 500x2sec BMP frames at 80% gain with Meade 12inACF unguided last night at about 11.30pm.
420 came through grading and I selected 385 frames stacked and processed in ImagesPlus.
No calibration frames were used. Camera temperature was 24.5degrees.
Quite pleased with the result. Loads easier without the calibration frames but a long time processing (2-3hrs ). Nice detail and minimal noise. Any comments welcomed.