Thankyou all for your kind words and encouragement. I was so excited to have a good nights viewing I imaged many DSO's that night and stuck to 5 images of each to really see what was possible with the modded 1000D. 90 sec was the maximum that I found I could image with my alignment. I have the QHY5 sitting on my desk as the next step and look forward to the challenge of guiding. I have an old version of photoshop that doesn't like the TIFFs that DSS kicks out hence the use of DPP initially although I can get them back to JPEG in DPP. I will definitely look at the DSS program closer too (maybe even do the unmasculine thing of reading the instructions
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