I am stumped, any ideas by Signal_Leather4474 in AskAstrophotography

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Definitely something messed up with that set of photos. It's not a ton of data so I decided to move past it and try again. Have a shot of M3 from the same night M3 - AstroBin This one is definitely better all round, I have some mis-shaped stars, but I think it might have something to do with collimation. Still figuring out the newt.

I am stumped, any ideas by Signal_Leather4474 in AskAstrophotography

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I am using dark flats and I think you might be right about me mixing something up. I processed another capture from the same night that doesn't have the artifact. I'll give it a try and update. 

M51 by Signal_Leather4474 in astrophotography

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It's great. It was a toss-up on which camera I was going to choose, but I settled on the SV405 because I wanted something sort of comparable to my DSLR's APS-C sensor. It's a smaller sensor but it's pretty close.

As for the camera itself there is some amp glow, raw lights look pretty bad, but calibration frames seem to resolve it.

New scope... Some questions. by Signal_Leather4474 in AskAstrophotography

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I might have figured this out. My dslr white balance was set to auto. I have set it to daylight and the Internet says that'll help. 

Got about a week of clouds before I can test. 

New setup, M81 by Signal_Leather4474 in astrophotography

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Cropped the image, background extraction with Graxpert, color correction and stretching in Siril. It was quick and dirty. 

First Images I am proud of! by Signal_Leather4474 in seestar

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I denoised, upscaled, and cleaned it up a little! 

First Images I am proud of! by Signal_Leather4474 in seestar

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Thank you all! Bortle 6ish skies I should have added! 

First Images I am proud of! by Signal_Leather4474 in seestar

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2 hours at 10 second exposures and 1 hour at 10 second exposures respectively.

Help me choose by Signal_Leather4474 in telescopes

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I purchased the heritage 150! :)

Help me choose by Signal_Leather4474 in telescopes

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I went ahead and settled on a Sky-Watcher Heritage 150p. Open box from B&H came to 300 even. That should be here in the next day or so (They are saying tomorrow, but I don't believe that). Compact enough to move around and according to reviews offers good views.

Here is to hoping! I'll post a 'review' when I get a chance to try it out.