[LostInSp_ce]

Thanks Ben, I encourage getting the Dob out with the guide camera and having a go. Imaging in mono is fun, quicker and I think helps to develop good habits (as you're not distracted by colour) with things such as contrast, noise control and sharpening which are all important for enhancing the finer details within an image.

The filters are just some cheapies I got off ebay a while ago just to play with until I invest in better ones. I'm holding off until I get the new camera. I want to make sure that everything plays nice with each other.

FireCapture was used for capturing, AutoStakkert for stacking and RegiStax for wavelets. After that it was WinJUPOS for derotation and then both Photoshop and RegiStax for alignment and then back again to Photoshop to clean up any little bits like the hot pixel in the green channel and the colouring of the GRS because I was only able to capture it in luminance. Unfortunately by the time the clouds thinned enough for me to continue with the colour filters it had already rotated out of view.

I know that the processing may sound like a lot of bouncing around but it's actually a quick process once you're familiar with it, 30 mins and you're done.

I hope this helps.