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This is M94, the Croc’s Eye Galaxy, shot from my backyard with an S50 over the past two nights. About six hours worth of 20s exposures, processed in Siril with a slight black point edit in Apple Photos. If you want to see the max potential of this, check out Zcom and some others that processed this off 140 hours of data from the Seestar Collective. The difficulty in processing this target is trying to keep some semblance of the outer halo while keeping the background controlled. Realistically I probably need twice the data to get there. Thanks for looking!

15 hours of data on Caldwell 60 from a suburban Bortle 7 zone. Shot Alt/az by a new Seestar user in our club with 10s and processed by me. This a very difficult capture from where we are and it was also difficult to process. I am once again convinced by the superiority of EQ mode and longer exposures. I usually drizzle but in this case to do so would generate several hundred gigs of data and I didn’t have the storage space. Still, this was a fun challenge. Processed in Siril and Lightroom Mobile.