Last weekend I got my first actual chance at imaging a galaxy with a DSLR, I'm happy with the results since I know most probably don't get anything like this on their first try. I have only about 29 minutes of data, there's a lot of noise etc. and it'd be great to see if you guys could figure something out.
DeepSkyStacker output: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11miFan0MSIxJihiVnQbeeAPI3gCQWdRP/view?usp=sharing
#Need help with processing M101
warm basin
This is pretty much the best I could do with the data, not great but at least you can see a little bit of detail of the galaxy.
elfin gull
Very nice for your first try using a DSLR, well done.
sacred fjord
@warm basin was this untracked?
warm basin
<@456226577798135808> was this untracked?
No, I found a crappy old Celestron AZ go-to mount for cheap, it's really unresponsive, horrible connection issues, tracking is so bad that to get any kind of data I had to take 400 subs just to get like 70 usable ones.
sacred fjord
No, I found a crappy old Celestron AZ go-to mount for cheap, it's really unrespo...
how much total exposure time?
warm basin
Stacked 29 minutes, got the rare chance to shoot from bortle 2 skies so that definitely helped.
warm basin
I think I got about 200x20s frames after doing a rough deletion of the bad ones, kept the best 85 or so from those.
sacred fjord
Stacked 29 minutes, got the rare chance to shoot from bortle 2 skies so that def...
dang bortle 2. ur lucky