New Telescope: Galaxy 4K

It is Galaxy season and I now have my 8" Celestron SCT with 6.3 focal reducer, so just need the weather to play ball. So far there have only been a few decent nights and here are some examples.

[@stevemiller3128]

This was before the ASIair had just received the C8 so still using the G9M2 never used the hand controller as I got the WiFi dongle with the HEQ5 Pro when I bought it in November and always used the Syncscan app on the iPad. All Go To with manual centering very slow and difficult, having the ASIair pro now is so much quicker and easier. And I was using JPEGs with the G9 so long shutter noise reduction takes equal to the exposure so every 30 second shot took one minute. Always used either 30 or 40 seconds to keep the stars round and I think 3200ISO all processed in Affinity (prior to macros) and with JPEGs normal stacking and hand stretched as the image has been stretched in camera while processing the jpeg. Stacking reduces noise a lot as well as the in camera noise reduction Affinity did the rest usually just after stretching before background removal as well as sharpening later.

[@KJRitch]

What camera did you use on the galaxy? Did you have the ASIAir when you took these images or did you use the hand controller GoTo? What exposure, gain/iso and length did you use? Affinity to process? Affinity to denoising and sharpen? At what point in processing do you apply denoising? Thanks

[@liveandletlive8264]

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