Nice photos with a Pixel 3, Scott! Have you tried Registax 6 (free) for your post AS!3 and pre-Photoshop processing? The wavelet functions in there ...

Thanks so much for the input, Paul! Yes, I also used eyepiece projection. (Have you ever tried afocal/digiscoping? I guess that would require more ...

Hi Terri. Thanks for the info. I tried to go very light on the wavelets in Registax since if I moved the sliders much at all, the image deteriorated...

Got home late last night and it was clear, to my amazement! I thought I'd give 'planetary' a try with my very limited equipment. Sky-Watcher 150P...

Thanks for taking a look, Terri! Yes, guilty of the heavy hand. As I said (confessed) in reply to Paul's post, I think I have Canon DSLR noise PTSD ...

I tried processing my M31 photo again (third way you mentioned) and it seems maybe a little better in terms of the core, but maybe not as 'punchy'. T...

Great images, Everybody!

Thanks, Paul. That all makes perfect sense. I suppose had I masked the core (which I didn't) when processing I could have prevented it from being ex...

I wanted to see if I could separate my OSC camera data into separate channels with the ultimate goal of trying to reproduce a Hubble Palette for some ...

I saw an old post referring to this on Cloudy Nights. Guess it's just a fact of life with smaller aperture, wide angle scopes. Maybe on the next clear...

I looked back at the stars in my images of the NA/Pelican and the Elephant's Trunk Nebula and I don't see those cones in the stars, Terri! (Take a lo...