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Thank you Turfpit. Really appreciate your recommendation and suggestion. I like noise reduction you did on this. I will try it in Photoshop (Assume i would be able to do that?) Also, yes ASI678MC is a planetary camera and i am tracking to keep above 182. I normally start with 200 and see if it stack...

Still looks grainy.

Hello Robin -
Here is the picture with darks and @ 15s and 300 gain. Any further recommendations? Just stack longer?

Thank you for the recommendation. Will need to read on dark subtraction, extending the exposure is easy win.

Yep.....Really not bad result. Again thank you for all the help on this forum.

Thanks Robin. All worked out well with resetting the stretches and adjusting a few other things.

Thanks. I think at 1 time, i had it on but then switched it off because i am not sure what i was doing - In all that it has been ON/OFF a few times and i think i messed it up. I will reset both the stretches. When i read your first reply, i immediately fired up SC and was looking for the setting in ...

Thanks Robin for the response. So this is definitely not turned ON - * Check processing options (dark subtraction, background subtraction, flat correction) are either off or set to reasonable values. Incorrect darks/flats/etc can cause issues. Background Subtraction=Off Planet/Disk Stabilization=Off...

My System: CGEM Mount Edge HD8 OTA, Celestron Focus Motor (Connected to laptop via USB and USB hub), ASI678MC (Connected to laptop via USB3.0 and USB hub) Workflow: I use Skyportal app on Samsung tablet and Star Sense to sky align and polar align (Tablet is connected to the mount via Celestron Skypo...

Ok. Thanks.