having now sold my Espirit 100ed I have brought back out my little Askar 400 (72mm aperture) on the CEM40 mount in the interim (new larger refractor scope on way).
I had one of those "will I wont I" nights here Thursday around clouds and forecasts, but found after an hour and a half of dodging clouds to polar align, get guiding recalibrated, autofocus workin etc, things cleared and I started taking 2min exposures expecting to be clouded out at any moment, but the clouds held back till 11.45pm letting me gather nearly 3 hours of subs
I had some wierd issues with processing/stacking this dataset in APP... the program kept saying my flats from the night were corrupt or missing data... loaded them all up eventually separately and APP accepted, but found when I tried to recompose extracts from APP of HaOII mono and Ha and OIII mono in Startools later (as LRGB) I have awful banding appearing... the straight RGB colour FITs from APP worked Ok, but still when pushed looked to have some underlying pattern noise... so I stacked the exact same data in DSS and processed though Startools clean as a whistle... still no clue. Hope I get it sorted as I prefer to do extracts from APP and recombine and make use of Startools powerful bi-channel colour presets.
Any thoughts/advice on the above welcome.
Anyway, here's 2hr 30m of Carina with the Askar/QHY268c DSS, STartools and PS for what it's worth.