Your photo is very nice. But it is with some saturation and noise. You use the same camera that I use.
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This was 7 x 40 secs, mix of ISO 1600 and 3200, in camera noise reduction, no separate darks, flats, etc
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With Canon, darks are very very important. And my experience says that the best with bright objects is with less ISO and more numbers of frames.
If I use ISO 400 or 200 I got more smoth stars and better colors. I normally use ISO 400 and if the object is faint, ISO 800.
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Fred, even though some of us are not beginners, the quality of images in the main deep sky forum makes it very intimidating to post anything there.
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I feel the same. Actually there are a very powerfull team there. With impressive and amazing quality of photos. But I thing that this forum is about astronomy, not photography. And there are two differents goals in astrophotography:
a) images with visual impact
b) images with contents
Some photos from NASA and ESO are not perfect and beautiful, but they have informations very interesting.
My photos aren't perfect or very beautitul, but they have some informations very interesting, too. Mainly because of the resolution of my set. And they are done with a stock Canon.
I think they can be published there without that
virtual intimidation. Some times they bring some new information about the object.