After patiently sitting through two and a half days of the AAIC, where the overwhelming message from the experts was; 'use as much high-quality data as you can', I thought I'd ignore them completely.
This image was acquired from light-polluted suburban Perth over the only two clear(ish) nights (nearly a month apart) of late I've been here. The first night was plagued by clouds with only about 30 min of L R and G being usable. Some strange behaviour also began to manifest, with the PHD window 'twitching' on the desktop, and guiding dropping out intermittently causing severe streaks and ruining all the B subs. Seemed to be someting to do with the feed from the DMK41 guide camera. Fast forward a month, and surprisingly, the hardware and software have not healed themselves, and last night I managed about 30 min of useable B while trying to fix it before the clouds rolled in. There is definitely something odd happening on the laptop - I never used to have any trouble from the guiding end of things, now I can't get an rms below 1.5.
Anyway, stacking, gradient removal and LRGB combination all done in pixinsight, curves and levels and not much else.
No point being rude about the image - hopefully if I resolve the issues with the guiding when the weather cooperates and actually acquire a suitable amount of tight data, I'll be able to show what this 10" can actually deliver!
Anyway - here's the worst you can expect from a 10" with a QSI683.
Astrobin site here:
http://www.astrobin.com/55463/
cheers,
Andrew.
and the neb looks nice and soft without looking toooo artificially smoothed (although I would probably tone down the smoothing just a tad still 
