OK, I had a crack at M8 last night - 23 data shots @ 6 secs apiece (to limit star trailing). 5 darks, 1 flat. Better than nothing. The battery on my camera was near dead, so this limited me. I assembled everything in DSS, and it kept 18 files. FWHM was around 3 for most images, which is probably pretty good for manual focus I suspect. The resultant tif (around 35mb) can be found here:
http://www.ecn.net.au/~dpastern/m8.tif
I'm not quite sure how to best approach post processing of this in Photoshop. I tried some work with levels, but whilst it revealed details, it introduced a LOT of noise and colours were not right.
Any suggestions?
Dave