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Old 05-05-2015, 02:50 PM
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Okay thanks for that. I was kinda hoping for a single file full stack, but 7 frames will do!

I think I have found your problem. According to your date stamp on the EXIF data, this was taken on April 29 at 20:24pm. You are competing with a Moon that's 80% illuminated just 56 degrees away! First rule of deep sky imaging. Don't do it with a big bright Moon in the sky! You have overstretched the image to try and compensate for this unsuccessfully.

I have processed your 7 frames and stretched it about as far as I would go with 7 frames. Your image looks normal, even quite good for this amount of time given the big bad Moon.
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