Just like last fall, when I wound up with 59 hours on M76, I didn’t realize I had so much data. But I’m okay with it!
This is the first image I processed with PixInsight, and I really only made the move because DeepSkyStacker was giving me some weird moire patterns in the stacked images. If you’ve been holding off of PI because of the learning curve, I’d tell you to just jump in. With Harry’s intro tutorials, I found it pretty quick to get results as good as I was getting with Photoshop. And with a little extra effort, I think this is well beyond what I could have gotten in PS.
Thanks guys! If only I could get this much time on a spring galaxy. It would really help with my light pollution. But short nights and spring weather are a lot less friendly than fall.