no probs starcrazzy. I normally save my pics as .tif in envisage with 'save all uncombined images'. I stack in registax and edit in ps cs2. might try lowering my exposure time to 15-30sec and stack more next time
took me 2 hours to do my polar alignment last night. once that's done mark your mount so you don't have to do it again
forgot to answer your question before, with ETA Carina, i had to burn the stars abit to bring out the details. not quite sure exactly how to bring out the details without burn stars. not using any focal reducers. just my tele, eq6, dsi and my lappy.