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Hi Steve, you already have some good imaging equipment good guiding and even a slide off roof observatory and you are getting good results.
In time a better camera would bring some improvements, but spending more time in perfecting skills in image aquisition and processing will give you much better results now and will be a great asset far into the future.
By only using the better quality subs taken in an imaging session and using dark frames and by using multible varied exposures 10sec, 30sec, 60sec, 2min etc and stacking each set can allow you to use processing to layer and blend to reduce blow out on brighter sections and bring out detail in faint areas.
There are many different software packages available and everyone has their favorites, i use Startools and gimp, i find the entropy tool in Startools great to bring out faint detail and the gradient and noise reduction tools very good.
Keep up the good work, Wayne.
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