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Hi Martin, You are doing everything out of order, taking darks, flats, etc
when you don't understand how to do the basics in DSS. Forget darks etc for now, and enable in camera noise reduction. You're not wasting much imaging time because your subs are short.
Most DSS output images look like yours, washed out and nearly monochrome. You have to make adjustments to arrive at the colours that
you want. Tick the box under the three sliders so they all move together, and move them to the left to get a sky colour that is fairly dark, but not black. Click the luminance tab. Leave the three sliders set to zero alone.
Adjust the highlights slider to quieten down the washed out highlights in the image.
Adjust the one above it [33.3] to show more or less nebulosity.
Adjust the top one [black] to darken the sky if necessary.
Click the saturation tab and provisionally set it to about 16-18.
Back to histogram, untick box and adjust RGB sliders individually to
get the colour how you want it. You should end up with the three colours merged into a single tall cone, and the dotted coloured lines should also nearly merge into one. Miniscule adjustments make big
changes. Finally, readjust saturation to suit you. Export image to other software to make any other adjustments such as contrast, sharpening,
etc. Colour sliders in DSS are difficult to move in very small steps.
This is how I do it, others may have different routines. Hope it helped.
raymo
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