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Very nice!!!!
Che

better. did you use the HDR>reveal? I find it does a very good job with galaxy cores.
Che

that is an excellent astrophoto, especially being only your second one well done
Che

Looks to me like you've made some progress. did you find there was less noise in this stack? If so possibly your darks were not done at the same temp as the lights. In another thread here, someone posted about a program called darkmaster which may be of use. https://sourceforge.net/projects/darkmast...

The reason I suggested stacking w/o the darks is that I've heard dslr's these days have much lower dark current than in the past. If you stack darks that arent 1. really necessary, or 2. not properly matched to the lights, with respect to temp. I've read that this can introduce more noise. I'm not s...

Hi Arrowstar here's my processing of your new stack. As far as noise, and keeping in mind that I do not use a DSLR and am not familiar with their noise characteristics and such, I'm wondering if your calibration frames could be contributing to noise. You might want to try stacking without the dark f...

NiceM33 Scott
Che

both are nice, but imho......the atik takes the prize
Che

I was able to finish up another image before the moon started to interfere.
Che

Hi Arrowstar, I had a go at your data, what you have seems pretty good, you just,as you mentioned, need more of it. There is no substitute for photons ;) below is my result along with the log file. Che M33_20160927_20161005_stacked1 (Medium).jpg File loaded [C:\Users\Che\Downloads\M33_20160927_20161...