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<blockquote data-quote="TwistedThrottle" data-source="post: 741907" data-attributes="member: 46724"><p>[ATTACH]344229[/ATTACH]</p><p>Making progress. This is what I came up with a couple nights ago. Swapped lenses from a Tokina 100mm f2.8 (Not long enough) and this was taken with a 70-300 AF-P 4.5-5.6E. There is still a lot more detail to be had but I am glad I can see some definition of the spiral. Still not ready to use the big guns yet. Every time I try to use the Bigma, my polar alignment gets all wacked out. Baby steps.</p><p>Thank you both for the heads up on Deep Sky Stacker, I will look into it. There's not a reason to not try both since they're free. I like Sequator since its so easy to use, I have heard DSS can be un necessarily confusing, but that's what most of this hobby is, LOL!</p><p>There's definitely two sides to astro. As important as in focus shots are at the proper exposure, (on clear, cloudless nights) I am finding it's all about the post processing and its like no other post processing that I have ever done before. Once I get a few more nights with Andromeda, I would like to see some nebula. Might need to shift my stay-up-late routine to get-up-early in order to grab the Orion Nebula. Are the techniques the same as for galaxies? Since there is less light coming off nebula, are the exposures longer? Are more shots required? Can you see anything in your shots indicating you are on point or are go-to mounts and computer software the only way to know for sure? Thanks for your help.</p><p></p><p>And what I came up with last night:</p><p>[ATTACH]344230[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TwistedThrottle, post: 741907, member: 46724"] [ATTACH=CONFIG]344229._xfImport[/ATTACH] Making progress. This is what I came up with a couple nights ago. Swapped lenses from a Tokina 100mm f2.8 (Not long enough) and this was taken with a 70-300 AF-P 4.5-5.6E. There is still a lot more detail to be had but I am glad I can see some definition of the spiral. Still not ready to use the big guns yet. Every time I try to use the Bigma, my polar alignment gets all wacked out. Baby steps. Thank you both for the heads up on Deep Sky Stacker, I will look into it. There's not a reason to not try both since they're free. I like Sequator since its so easy to use, I have heard DSS can be un necessarily confusing, but that's what most of this hobby is, LOL! There's definitely two sides to astro. As important as in focus shots are at the proper exposure, (on clear, cloudless nights) I am finding it's all about the post processing and its like no other post processing that I have ever done before. Once I get a few more nights with Andromeda, I would like to see some nebula. Might need to shift my stay-up-late routine to get-up-early in order to grab the Orion Nebula. Are the techniques the same as for galaxies? Since there is less light coming off nebula, are the exposures longer? Are more shots required? Can you see anything in your shots indicating you are on point or are go-to mounts and computer software the only way to know for sure? Thanks for your help. And what I came up with last night: [ATTACH=CONFIG]344230._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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