2nd ever image and 1st time shooting a galaxy

[unborn dove]

C64
Sky-Watcher watcher 250pds
Canon eos r50
Sky-Watcher eq6-r pro
And 240 10 second exposures

I need to learn better polar aliment

[unborn solar]

What do you use to process? You seem to have a Gradient across your image. Though, it is a fairly simple one and easy to fix in Siril. Other than that, pretty cool for your 2nd image :)

[unborn dove]

I used background extraction 2 times but it still made it through

It’s a dam street lamp

[unborn solar]

How did you extract the background?

[frail shard]

Nice and sharp! I like it. How did you polar align?

[unborn dove]

With background extraction in Siril

[unborn solar]

Did you extract it and hit apply afterwards?

[unborn dove]

Yes trust me it was really bad raw

[unborn dove]

I used the 3 star polar alignment in Nina but only got to 20 arc minute before I gave up

[frail shard]

Did you start by aligning with the polar scope?

[unborn dove]

I can’t as there’s a tree that perfectly covers the consolation I need

[jovial lotus]

You have walking noise

Dither

Or die

[unborn solar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1020657687291252797/1285898321143136287/meridian_flip.gif

[wind mauve]

Do you use guiding? You should be able to make longer exposures.

[unborn dove]

Idk how

[unborn dove]

No and I suck at polar alignment

[unborn dove]

Ima try and shoot it again but aim to get 5 arc seconds this time

[jovial lotus]

Direct guider in Nina

[worn hound]

Why’d you give up tppa isn’t too hard

[unborn dove]

I’m easily m enraged

[worn hound]

But like what was going wrong

If it gives you an error you correct it

[unborn dove]

To far that way to far this way not far enough

[worn hound]

Turn the screws very small amounts

[unborn dove]

I do and it don’t change

[worn hound]

You’re using your imaging cam and it doesn’t say solving failed right