[RussellH]

Would you believe my camera battery died on the last Dark frame last night? Could be a problem as I'd only used it for 2 nights, a couple hours each night. it is the original battery though, so capacity may be down. I have a generic spare from eBay, so we'll see how it goes.

Here's my first attempt at a processed image. It's kind of tricky keeping the noise out but the detail in. I'm using the trial of StarTools to see if I can work with it. Seems nice so far, but lots to figure out. The attached picture is just a 50% screen grab from where I got to when I seem to have gotten all I can from the image with my limited experience. Not sure if I went too far with the noise reduction, not that you'll be able to tell in this scrunched down forum version of the file anyway.

Russell

*edit* added a 100% crop on the galaxy