Sob story to be read in the equipment forum
Anyway, I've put the issue down to non-visible atmospheric ice after the passage of a cold front - weird star profiles, odd spike, a harsh green tinge (removed in my processing) and generally difficult to process (so hard extracting ANY cyan before it starts to look faker than Donald Trumps hair).
Anyway, it is what it is (ca-ca
), but I had to make SOMETHING out of the 3 hours data...before I hit the Shift-Delete key sequence anyway
So, tada - M83 imaged from Hoth.
https://www.astrobin.com/full/338934/B/
At the insistence of His Excellency Logan, I had further technicolour yawned on the thing:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/338934/C/
I love at least how this tiny Tak can pull out a buzzillion background galaxies still...the 85mm that thinks it's an AP Hondas
Here was my imaging site: