This was my first attempt ever taking a picture of a deep sky object. It is a single shot of 5 seconds using my Canon T5 camera along with the 75-300mm lenses at maximum augmentation, in a basic tripod. Post-processing was done using Photoshop. It was taken on April 14th, 2015, from Caracas, Venezuela.
On November 11th, 2015, I decided to retry this object but stacking frames this time. This is a single session of 100x1s frames, along with darks and bias frames, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker. Post-processing was done in Photoshop. It was taken in Caracas, Venezuela with my Canon T5 camera.
This is a single session of 60x60s frames, using my Canon T5 camera on my SkyWatcher BlackDiamond 150/750 telescope, and stacked using Deep Sky Stacker with darks, dark flats, flats and bias frames. No dithering. Post-processing was done using Pixinsight. This picture was taken in Santa Pola, Alicante, Spain, on Octuber 15th, 2017.
This is a single session of 114x60s frames, using my Canon T5 camera on my SkyWatcher BlackDiamond 150/750 telescope, and stacked using Deep Sky Stacker with darks, dark flats, flats and bias frames. No dithering. Post-processing was done using Pixinsight. This picture was taken in Santa Pola, Alicante, Spain, on December 30th, 2018.
Improvement is noticeable, however, walking noise product for not dithering was a big problem. Also, post-processing was not ideal since it blew up the center of the nebula.