[Gavin1234]

Hi, I upgraded my gear this weekend. I bought a celestron 5se as my first scope 4 months ago and I’ve been using that with a canon 80d which was great to start out with. But I wasn’t happy with that anymore. So I got an Esprit 100ed, a Celestron CGX Mount and an ASI071MC Pro cooled camera.

Really happy with this setup. A few teething problems with the camera but I’m starting to get the hang of it. I managed to take my first picture tonight. It’s only my 4th time trying to process a picture which probably shows and I don’t think my alignment on mount was right either so obviously I have a long way to go but I’m just happy to even take a photo of a DSO. Here’s a picture of the rig and my first dso picture.

I want to go back into photoshop with this pic tomorrow and try to figure out how to make the black look blacker and see if I can make it look less busy. It kinda looks like there’s too many stars. Any hints or suggestions would be appreciated.