Hi all
Things started coming together last night (
story here).
This image of NGC253 consists of 54x 60s exposures, calibrated, aligned and stacked (average) in Images Plus, followed by DDP in IP, and final adjustments in photoshop.
Imaged through Saxon ED80 with WO 0.8x reducer/flattener, mounted on EQ6, with Canon 350D @ ISO1600.
Some of the exposures were hand-guided through a side-by-side mounted 80mm f/5 refractor and my DMK21AF04. Auto-guiding is next!
I balanced everything nicely before starting, but then of course I forgot to re-balance after adding the two cameras, which accounted for my inability to go longer than 60s without trailing.
I'm pretty happy with how it's all coming together. The WO reducer works nicely - the stars are nice and sharp and have good colour - not just featureless white blobs.
Thanks for looking.