After the thread I started called
Are rental scopes cheating? and getting a range of opinions (
) I thought I would present an image I took with rental equipment.
This image is the result of six five minutes frames in each of RGB on a GRAS FSQ106. I stacked and colour combined the frames in CCDStack and did some further processing in PS CS2. I can't remember exactly what I did in PS as I just tend to fiddle until it looks good. I remember doing curves, increasing saturation, adjust shadow/highlights and adjusting the colour balance. I then did some masking and sharpened M31 and reduced noise in the background with Noise Ninja.