Interested in thoughts on processing work flow, I'm not one to want to spend a lot of time on it and more interested acquisition and keeping things looking 'natural' than over processing and trying to expose fainter details.
I went against all advice and bought a Celestron Nexstar 8se for dual AP/visual purposes. I've actually had a great experience with it, I built my own wedge and was able to get 60 second subs with OAG. I've finally upgraded to an AZEQ6 which I've tested up to 5 minute subs with no loss of frames due to tracking/guiding issues.
M83
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Celestron C8
Imaging cameras:ZWO Asi533MC Pro
Frames: 12x120"OPTOLONG L-PRO
Bortle 5
Live stack + simple manual stretch and colour balance
The spike artifacts on some stars is because I accidentally set my home made dew ring temp too high
