Hi Alistairsam,
I havent given up on the CCD route, for now anyway, it is just that as you say, there are a few things to fix first before I can justify the expense and eliminate the frustration I am getting with BOTH cameras.
Here is something I have been able to extract from my DSLR data using startools and slightly in Photoshop (layer blend the galaxy to the background.
It isnt going to win any prizes, but at least it looks a lot better than what I have been churning out from this 22 mins of data previously. I did use some darks and bias frames with this and it seemed to get a better result from the stacking, then I worked on the vignetting with Wipe and had a play with the masks in Startools to keep the galaxy isolated while I played with the gradients, seems to have worked better? There are still things I dont want in there, but this will do for now....
Lots of things to improve on, but hey, its a start...and after all, officially, my first galaxy shot......Yay!
....
Cheers
Chris