[RyanJones]

If nothing else I think this image serves as an excellent demonstration to anyone who is looking into getting into imaging that it is a very difficult hobby. Karl has not been imaging for many years as some others on this site have and yet has, in the past, produced some beautiful images. He has now changed his entire setup which requires many many hours of trial and tuning to get right. Again it serves to show that what we as astrophotographers do is not as simple as pointing our scopes to the heavens and pulling the trigger. I personally applaud you Karl for having the courage to post his progress rather than wait till he's " nailed " it. As Sil stated in his post, we all have dirty pics in our collections because imaging objects thousands of light years away just isn't that easy. Those that partake in this amazing hobby know this only too well.