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Thanks so much for all the feedback and advice, I really appreciate it.
I see now that there just a lot of stars in that area. Haha at first I thought I had some sort of stacking error and it was doubling up on them.
Lewis, I really like the blue in your m20 looks amazing.
Sil, I don’t have a calibrated monitor as far as I know, just a normal one. But I’m going to read up on that right now. Will also look into HDR and star size reduction. The blown out white core in the middle of my m8 is what I want to address the most now.
Thanks Alex and Kevin. The camera is what I’m struggling with the most so far. I’m using the two spacers that came with the camera 16.5 mm and 21mm connected together but still spending a lot time getting focus and gain set (mainly focus). Once I can see a star on my screen Im ok. I can get to about 1.75 HFR. But I spend a lot of time with a black screen just wandering through the range of my focuser until I eventually stumble on a faint signal of a star. It’s taking up a lot of my time.
I haven’t tried the field flattener yet (or looked up what it does either lol). I’ll also look into the m42 spacers but I really need to keep reading up on this side of things because I don’t really have a good understanding of how the spacers and camera work yet.
Next Saturday I’m getting a zwo 30f4 guidescope and a ASI 174MM mini autoguider camera as well. This will add more to learn but I’ve read a fair bit about guiding already so I at least understand the concept. Any thoughts on those two items? I’ve been told they’re good options.
Once again thanks everyone for your very helpful comments.
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