Crap stacked 1 hour and 30 mins Bode's Galaxy.

[whole quail]

Hello! I recently went outside to get some data. I got Bode's and got this stacked image. I saw some pretty good spirals but can't seem to get the brightness to go away. I want to see what you guys can do with it. Thanks in advance to anyone who works on it! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a-iOpC_XUNc25-vFNXk-BXnVWoKcTPBJ?usp=sharing

[old ice]

oh

sure ill give it a try

[whole quail]

Thanks mate

ill try and show you what i kinda got with minimal effort

i really dont know what im doing though 😅

[old ice]

oh

btw

what focal length did u use?

[whole quail]

whats up

[old ice]

and pixel pich

pitch*

[whole quail]

uh f/10 i

i dont know what pixel pitch means

[old ice]

k np

whats the scope

[whole quail]

celestron nexstar 8se

with a sony a6100

[old ice]

kk

(ur focal length is 2023mm btw)

nice setup tho

big scope and a big camera sensor

[whole quail]

thanks haha

gonna get the zwo1600mm soon

[old ice]

im messing with the histogram

but rlly dunno what fits best

ill make 2 versions

[whole quail]

thanks

[old ice]

version 1:

[whole quail]

awesome

[old ice]

im not able to get the arms disti ctly from the background

[whole quail]

yeah thats fine haha

you can still see them

i need flats

but i forgot to take them so i messed up

[old ice]

oh lol

it happens for me aswell

[whole quail]

yeah 😭

[old ice]

version 2

[whole quail]

thanks a whole bunch mate

[old ice]

yeah ur welcome

🙂

[whole quail]

not the best data but im still happy as its my first time getting an hour worh of daya

i really appreciate it

[old ice]

next time try to do more integration

[whole quail]

alright

[old ice]

its the only way to make it better

[whole quail]

bortle 9 sucks but i gotta deal with it

[old ice]

(and take flats)

[whole quail]

yeah haha

[old ice]

lol

[old ice]

ohhh

damn

[whole quail]

in bortle 6, i wouldve gotten a wayyy better image

[old ice]

considering that, its some awesome data

[whole quail]

i think i wouldve gotten this image in like 5 mins

in bortle 6 haha but its fine

ill keep trying

and getting better

[whole quail]

thank you

[old ice]

[balmy flicker]

Hey @whole quail had a look at the data... Yikes XD Im also assuming you use the Nexstar 8SE? or 6-5 one of those? But either way im also a SCT user at F10 (The C8 that came with the Nexstar) and just wanted to let you know that your gonna want some longer exposures as for 1h 30m there should be alot more and because your F10 if the subs arent long its gonna be really really difficult to pull anything. You atleast need 90s ISO 6400 to pull spirals that are nicely visible and if you are using a Nexstar then i can only suggest saving for a new mount as the SE mount is really not great... Got me my first images but still now im taking single exposures that look better than my final image back then theres no going back lol

There was nothing wrong with integration time with this purely just need some longer subs (:

[whole quail]

Yeah thanks for the info. Unfortunately I highly doubt the SE can handle 90 second subs. I have to deal with what i got for now until I have enough money to get a better mount.

[balmy flicker]

Maybe try increasing your ISO to a high value as thatll help significantly pull data

[whole quail]

how much do you suggest?