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Originally Posted by bugeater
Okay I managed to polar align and take some shots between the showers coming through. Would have liked more time, but oh well. This time 5 x 3 min exposures and I did a bunch of darks. Minimal processing so far:
http://astrob.in/173909/0/
Below is a crop. I'm actually surprised how much better it is with only 15 min of data. Light pollution filter and coma corrector really worked. Though there is still some coma 
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Hi marty,
colour balance looks better

its still very dark you have a lot of information hidden in there, here's a quick tutorial on using curves and levels I think explains it simply and well.
http://myastroimages.com/Astro_Imagi...toShop_Curves/
Cheers
Russ