[wayne anderson (Wayne)]

Thanks Laurie, Ross and JJJ

Sorry Lewis I don’t have a dark site at landsborough I have 5 bright street lights less than 100 meters from my backyard. I have been looking for a dark site near by, but found you really need to go over the other side of the range past Conondale, Rons (astroron) place at Cambroon is ok, I am still looking for a dark place closer to home, if you find one let me know.


Thanks alpal for your advice, I ditched using Corel to process (it’s a bit old and rough) then downloaded GIMP (its free) and reprocessed the image. The final stacked image still has the stars blown out just a little bit but gimp is a little more sensitive and forgiving to use when processing, I an still learning my way around using gimp.

These are the close up crop image (1), processed with gimp (2) and original stack image resized (3)