First of all, this photo is a few months old and I just got to processing it, I missed the focus by quite a lot but I think it's fine for a first attempt at a nebula.
Camera: Canon EOS 250d
Lens: Canon kit lens 75-300 @ 300mm f5.6
Tracker: MSM Nomad
Tripod: SmallRig CT20
Lights: 20x 45seconds at f5.6 and ISO 3200
Darks: 50x
Flats: 33x 1/13s I just put a white photo on my phone and turned the brightness to the max, I don't think this is very efficient
Stacked and processed in siril: Backgroun extraction > Photometric color calibration > a bit of green noise reduction > starnet > asinh > histogram > color saturation
Exported to photoshop for final adjustments > manual star recomposition > levels > masks for nebulae to increase saturation, texture and clarity > noise reduction
Any and all tips and advice are welcome.
by Stupidmonkeyjaa