Rob,
Great capture.
Your colour balance is aesthetically pleasing. You’re not giving the STL11k a run for its money – 120 sec subs is freak'n peanuts for an ABG chip. Use the bleeding to your advantage mate. Don’t be scared to take 600 or 900sec subs, even longer if you can. You’ll triple/quadruple your signal to noise ratio and capture much fainter nebulosity in doing so. As chips are linear, by taking multiple 120 sec exposures all you are doing is capturing the same amount of light over and over – the image isn’t actually getting any deeper. All you are doing is improving your signal to noise, but only on the 120 seconds of light you’re collecting. The only way you’ll go deeper and get smoother data is with longer sub exposures.
Looking forward to seeing more.
