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Thanks on the workflow. I took your flow and followed them on the 2min subs and got the same results. So then went back to my 1min subs and followed the same flow to the letter. From the picture below I would say good results. Next would be to to test changes on the 1min subs and see if I can " lear...

First I want to thank you for your time and patience with this. If you could provide me with the workflow I really would appreciate it. Every thing I capture will have lots of Skyglow. In San Diego California USA all of the true dark sky areas are hours away. Mt Palomar Observatory has a camp ground...

Well stacked just lights and inside DSS image turned red or pink, Startools same thing all red. So stacked with just darks and removed two lights with artifacts, meteors. 18 lights 2 min each. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1ItjFY8IUsmWGQ8nrPaGpgNxbZudX120U I think the skyglow is jus...

Well the UHC filter was a total failure. APT could not do a plate-solve with it on. Plus taking it off for plate-solve then back on for capture could not guarantee focus. So without the filter I captured 20 photos 2 min each. "I" can't get anything worth while in Startools. Below is link to the tif ...

Thanks for the reply. Tried one minute long no filter and the background around the galaxy was nothing but noise. Autodev then Wipe was worse. Ill try 2 minutes 20 shots but with a UHC filter tonight. I did Darks, Flats "with old style light bulb" and Bias frames. Traveling to a legal dark area is w...

Really new to all Astrophotography. I am using a GSO RC 6 inch telescope with a Canon T3i camera, not using filters yet. The mount is a Bressor exos-2 with AstroEQ go-to. I use APT for tracking and goto and plate solving shows it tracks good. I captured M101, 20 images 20 seconds each and used DSS f...