my signup because this all probably is going to China.

China is sophisticated enough that it can vacuum up all the information it wants about without any involvement of a Lemmy.lm admin.

Thank you!

William Optics Flourostar 132mm refractor on a Sky Watcher EQ6R-Pro. It is a large and heavy scope I picked up used from FB marketplace.

Beautiful! What size SCT?

Not bad for a simple DSLR + star tracker setup. That setup is just hard to manage. I started there too.

Yeah, I find the worse is astrobin, where you can see the pic of the day and they used a 24" PlaneWave OTA. Yikes. https://planewave.com/product/cdk24-ota/

Nice work!I want to use Siril more for processing.

That is excellent for an unguided capture with a non-astrophotography camera! Great work!

This was infinitely better than my first attempt at astrophotography.

You have the horsehead nebula in the upper middle/leff as well! Nice capture! This is a great start.

A lot unfortunately. I've got just under $20K Canadian invested. Many of the most expensive pieces (the big scope and the big mount) I was able to buy at a discount used on FB marketplace, so that saved a lot.

Nice work! Have you tried star removal yet? It would be awesome on this image.

I would love to join you moderating this sub!

Isn't it a little close to the fence? When I built my "astronomy deck", I built it up so that I could see above the fences.

Bode's galaxy. Nice! Can you control how long you integrate for on the Vespara? How long was this integration?

I can not post to this group. I tried a bunch of times and it failed.

I was trying to match the color palette of this beautiful image I saw from the Very Large Telescope project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbbell_Nebula#/media/File:M27_-_Dumbbell_Nebula.jpg