Two dippers

I finally got another night to play a little. This was with my other Canon zoom - their 18-200mm that came with the 50D. It was set at ~24mm and f5.6. This is a stack of 6 four minute exposures. (They came out 4'1", which I don't quite understand, but that may be a questions for another thread...) I did 10 darks. Everything shot raw this time, which sure increases the processing time, but does indeed improve things. I clicked on "auto color balance", since the raw stack looked a bit red for me. Slight curves and levels, and then I increased the saturation quite a bit. Finally, I used Carboni deep space noise reduction to even out the background.

Doing these shots makes me want to get a fiixed focal length for shooting constellations. Anyone have a preference in the ~24mm length?

Suggestions always welcome. Thanks for looking.

Charlie

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