This is my first foray into DSO photography. They say to never buy expensive equipment before you get into a hobby, but I bought a tracker off my buddy a while back. I am extremely happy to put it to good use finally.
A little unhappy with the stars as they are elongated in the top left-bottom right direction. I tried using Full Resynthesis under Star Processing in Siril, but that removed the cool diffraction spikes on Hatysa right below the nebula. I preferred the multi-spiked ones I got over fake lines, so I kept the stars as-is.
Acquisition:
* Equipment:
* Nikon D3400 unmodded
* AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED VR II
* Star Adventurer 2i
* Bortle 5.9
* Integration time=509x30s=15270s=~4.2h
* ISO 1600, f5.6, 200mm
* Took 60 darks (30s), 40 flats (1/500s), and 40 biases (1/4000s) per night
Processing:
* Siril 1.4.2
* Stacked using Naztronomy's OSC PreProcessing script with drizzle & background extraction enabled
* SPCC
* Remove Green Noise
* StarNet Star Removal
* VeraLux HyperMetric Stretch
* Curves Transformation
* Colour Saturation
* VeraLux StarComposer
* Darktable 5.4.1
* denoise (profiled)
by Negapmahs