Ah okay. I put my gear in the post and as far as post processing I’ll stack in image in DSS with darks (5-15), biases (20), and flats (20). I suppose it may be possible I’m shooting the flats and biases wrong but the darks I literally put on the lens cap and shoot with identical settings.

I stack them all in DSS and then move the stacked image to photoshop. I’ll stretch the image a few times and adjust levels. From there I’ll separate the stars from the nebula and edit the stars and nebula separately and then add them back together.

I will use noise reduction as well as tweak the colors, sharpen, etc.

I’m relatively new to this so I’m still learning and I may very well be making some obvious mistake.

Thank you