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Originally Posted by LightningNZ
Looks really nice Bret. Very pretty.
I'm surprised given the shear number of subs that you couldn't pull a bit more faint stuff out of this. Perhaps that's the result of light pollution. Either way, don't be afraid to leave the background a little greyish, rather than black.
You might like to try mixing some longer subs with the shorter ones next time - if you're able to do a good polar alignment. Maybe some 10 second images too to keep the Trapezium region from looking washed out.
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Thanks Cam.
Yeh I was hoping I could get a bit more out of it too, but I really struggled to. I've uploaded an example of what most of my subs look like. Maybe I shouldn't have included them in stacking. Anything over 30 seconds pretty much just resulted in a yellow/white image, hence I did so many 30 second subs in hope. I got some darker ones but the sun comes up shortly afterwards at the moment.
I'll wait until Orion is West of the Meridian for most of the night time so I can avoid the city lights.
I like the idea of the shorter subs regarding the trapezium. Thanks!
I'll have another crack at processing and leave the background a bit more greyish as you suggested and see what I can get. I might try restacking just the darker subs and see what happens as well.
Thanks again.
Bret