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Originally Posted by Vasya Pupkin
Why long? They are almost unvisible.
Special thanks for posting ISO and other data, I like to take such "zoom" wide-fields too.
But one question, what about light pollution in that region. Looking on the final image, I can't definitely evaluate it. Could you, please, post a single frame, not processed. By the way, you processing, what programms do you prefer?
And about LMC, it's a really great thing on your (unfortunately, not my) sky. All the best for you with astrophoto.
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Thanks.
I don't understand your comment: "Why long? They are almost unvisible." Do you mean why did I take 30sec shots and not something less? If so, then the answer is the camera does not seem to pick up much data if I do less than that (I tried in the past with very disappointing results) - and ISO1600 is the max for that model.
As for processing, I used DeepSkyStacker and basically followed a tutorial I found here (as a starting point):
DeepSkyStacker tutorial. I think I had 5 Dark images to use in the processing. I exported a TIFF and did some final clean up in PS - cropping, levels, curves, etc.
The light pollution is fairly low. The worst would be to the east and perhaps to the north. I was facing mostly south/south-east.
Unprocessed LMC shot