Cheers guys....
Tony I recall in the Imageplus tutorials that being mentioned , quite a bit to take in but spent much of yesterday just going through the videos and trying to take it all in while trying it out with one of my images . One thing i did concentrate on was Mask processing tools, much easier procedure in this program then PS and pretty cool to watch a image being processed with a duplicate copy being fined tuned and blending both to a output image
Robert I tried first K3CCDtools as the guiding program but it continues to be problematic, ill have everything set with the guidestar centred and all the settings correct as far as i can tell but once the guide button is pressed the star makes for a beeline out of the crosshairs.Guidedog I had no problem although the exposures where short but it hummed along nicley for the duration of the exposures.Used the LPI instead of the ToUcam to keep the cord count down
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