I'm exhausted from trying to get this one processed , m31 is a good challenge . It's getting there , some advice on how to keep my 10second exposures from getting blown out would be very helpful? I shot 10s , 30s , 120s rgb and 300s Ha ?

That's awesome real good nebulosity , pretty cool and nice job on the Seven sisters.

I think it's pretty awesome Brian , you brought some good nebulosity out of the 7 Sisters . I was going to try but, doesn't fit my camera angle .

That's sooo coool , I love a good shower. Meteors and soap.

I use the 32 and currently use 64 bit and it's not hung but, there was an issue when I had an update of phd {guide would fail to settle down}. I've got a lib all the way to 500 seconds that I use for the longer exposures over a 60s. I'd always check before going out except for that time, I've since resolved that issue by making sure that no future microsoft updates were trying to install in the middle of image time and checking over everything . The night you think it'll be ok it'll prove you a dumb dumb for not checking over everything and saving the sgf . I see the logic in why I should check everything and then it'll flip like a charm and resume guiding , every now and then I need to select a better star to guide on Ballard . I don't have the sky to run all night but, I may get an hour or 2 past meridian . Jared and his team watches my sequences for future ways to improve the program .

I was getting tired Ballard , ccdstack2+ is used for stacking and some cosmetic touches in all my photography adventures {wildlife , landscapes and deep space .

My buddy that got me to jump down this Rabbit hole told me not to calibrate my narrowband . Also some of my color channels don't change that much if any at all , I'm adding 5x the exposure length , weird isn't it ? I've got darks everywhere and I take 50 darks every 4 nights per channel after as long as the focus of the channels doesn't change? I've been using SGP for 4yrs to handle everything.

Cool !

I'm still going through collecting every chance I get , combining is a slow go . I get some to calibrate and some that just won't , I did figure this calibration process out after a month of beating the head against a cinder block wall in my Cave. this is 290 minutes 58 frames @300 half won't calibrate and I just don't understand this anyone know what I could be doing wrong?

The Wizard nebula in Ha

That's pretty , great job on the Pelican, awesome detail state parks are great for dark skies without all the LP . Real nice rig with the bells and whistles .

Some nice time lapse shots , I enjoyed these.

Ballard , looking good! Planetary imaging and processing is a real booger , your doing a lot better than my attempts. I shot 2000 frame avi's for each channel , I've got a small window before it gets over my house and into trees . I do enjoy looking at all the planetary images .

That's freezing bum off cold , it maybe dark as all get out . Most all mounts get sluggish unless you replace the thick grease with white lithium grease it'll not freeze or thicken up . keep it yup Rail_fan Bill

bwana , dude that's freaking awesome. You made my evening !

Railfan , that's a pretty nice Bubble nebula and what equipment were you using?