Last nights effort with Almost full moon Eta

[chuckywiz (Ben)]

Well hopefully the moon buggers off soon though im getting some good practise at this whole imaging thing..

15 x 3 minute exposures Long Exp Noise reduction on for a change
Nikon D3200
Black Diamond ED80
Neq6pro
guided with orion awesome autoguider
processed in photoshop (sooo much to learn!!)

[jsmoraes (Jorge)]

Good image, very widefield of nebula. Despite of absence of color. Congratulations.

[chuckywiz (Ben)]

that was a heavily cropped version - i dont have the reducer/flattener yet (still saving) so i just crop out the edges.. when you say absence of colour.. i had to tweak it to get the purple to pop out - its very hard to get an accurate grip of the right colours to bring out. the photo was very bland straight off the camera. should i be trying to get more reds?