Equipment:
Canon eos 250d
Canon ef 50mm f1.8 STM
Omegon minitrack lx4
Regular tripod

Lights: 180x30sec at f/4, iso1600
Darks: 40
Bias: 150
Flats: 30

Processing:
Stacked in DSS, then removed background gradient with GraXpert, stretched in GIMP, star removal in Starnet++, then edited the stars and starless photos seperately in GIMP – further stretching, saturation adjustments and recombining the two pictures back together and some masking and brush tool to get the Orion nebula exposed right and important stars big and bright again using a photo from GraXpert which i edited in GIMP seperately for Orion nebula and stars (just some stretching and saturation adjustments), then some noise reduction in lightroom on my phone.

Pretty happy with the result considering this was in bortle 6 and I was unable to polar align properly as this was shot from my balcony in a skyscraper so i can't see polaris at all. And this is my first time doing astro with stacking and processing too.😃

by Alert_Ad_3740

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