Completed processing another photo. The work on improving the mount’s guiding and better understanding the guiding software seems to have paid off. That, and the fact that it was a beautiful night, too, perhaps.
This was a night where I actually stretched out in the back of the truck and took a nap for a few hours under the stars… got up when my alarm went off, went to check the scope and it was still photographing away! That hasn’t happened too often in my young photography career.
Also, hopefully, the image processing is improving. In this case, the color doesn’t seem overwhelming from afar, but upon zooming in, it gets more and more colorful. Works to nice effect in this instance, I think.
Besides processing, I also finished the “hypertuning” of my mount. Testing, to date, has been limited to driving around my scope in the basement. Hopefully, the clouds may lift tomorrow, and I can take some data to see whether I have done any good, or not. It “sounds” better, at least!
Here is the full, uncropped image:
