Thanks. Yes, it is difficult to process as well. You do need a low lit room to get it right. The original final image is much better as I had to compress it to hell to get it a reasonable size to put here. The original is a 2.4GB FITS format file 
Those pics are just phenomenal, thanks for sharing.
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Something I can only dream of currently, but satisfies my nerdy curiosity !
This one is the Monkey Head Nebula. Again, it’s jpg compressed to within an inch of it’s life and also cropped to make it small enough, but it doesn’t look too bad.
After my experiences with the Filamentary Nebula above, I’ve had to upgrade my computer some. Doubled the memory to 32GB and got a 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD drive to use as working drive space to replace the 2TB raid 0 array of spinning rust, Certain operations that took 5-6 minutes now take 6-8 seconds. The full stack processing of the one here took only 3 minutes whereas before it would have taken about an hour.
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The next one is a composite image of the Heart Nebula and the Fish Nebula. This time, I have rendered the image in what is known as the ‘Hubble Palette’, (or as near as I can) used by the Hubble Space Telescope when taking pictures using various filters. The orangey areas are from hydrogen emissions ( Hα ) and the blue is from oxygen (OIII).
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Fantastic images, I hope its not too cold in the evening so I can peer at the night sky when I am there in a couple of weeks.
The other night, I stepped outside to go around closing all the shutters…
The street lights had gone off at 10pm so by now it really was pitch black… and I was scuttling by torch light…
Happened to look skywards and simply stood there spellbound…
It was magnificent… I was lost in my thoughts, busy pointing and muttering the names of the constellations … and OH had to yank me indoors before I froze to death… 
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Since my “new toy” telescope thread has deviated into discussions of faulty equipment, I thought I’d pop a few recent images taken with the Dwarf 3 smart telescope in here…
First up, a crescent Moon. The Dwarf 3 crops the image to 1920 x 1080 pixels for Moon images.
And a rather boring image of the Sun - only a couple of sunspots!
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Next a couple of images taken with the Askar 71F telescope and ZWO camera, before that had to go off for repair:
Messier 81 and 82, Bode’s galaxy and the Cigar galaxy:
M101 the Pinwheel galaxy (also an Askar 71F image)
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The Heart Nebula:
(taken last night when the nebula was very low in the sky and somewhat buried in Guildford’s light pollution) - memo to self - must do better next time!
And its neighbour the Soul Nebula photographed with the Dwarf 3 in April:
ETA: Paging Mr @hairbear - would you be kind enough to post something in this thread as the forum software won’t let me do more than three posts in a row! 
In any case I’d like to see some more of your photos…
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Ah Yes, the three post limit. Sometimes people can post more than three but exactly how I don’t know. Anywhere, here’s a few more of mine …
Jellyfish Nebula. Some of the stars are blown as the data was taken before my camera lens was fixed.
LBN 550, which is a molecular cloud
LBN 569, another molecular cloud close to LBN 550. They are both high in the sky not far from Polaris and so tracking is harder.
Haven’t had much luck recently with clear skies. During the last hot spell there was persistent high cloud at night that ruined tracking and capture.
Had any luck yet with your camera ?
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It’s with 365 Astro in Worthing. They had a go at sorting it via reflashing the board with help from ZWO but had no more luck than I did on my TeamViewer session.
So a new motherboard is on its way from China - Zoltan estimated 10 days for delivery (from last Tuesday) and then a few days for it to be installed, so i might get it back next week or the week after.
When I will be in Cornwall so will have to get them to send it to my partner’s place.
Meanwhile I have been using the Dwarf 3 - it’s a clever little thing! I was lucky with a few good cloudless nights at the end of May before the clouds came back!
Here are a couple more taken with the Dwarf 3 - NGC7822 the Question Mark nebula (minus the dot!) and NGC7380 the Wizard Nebula, both in Cepheus.
180 minutes of data (30 sec exposures) on the Question Mark, and 143 mins on the Wizard.
More time would of course have been better, but hours of darkness are few at the moment!
ETA: …and the targets were pretty low in the north - my first few subs of the Wizard nebula had tree branches in the frame!
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I see a fox, on the left. Ears, face, eyes and snout. I saw it straight away as I was processing the data.
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Actually I can see more than one face on this photograph.
One very large and one very small 
If I look at it a little longer… I’ll probably see some more…
Venus is wonderful…
June is supposed to be particularly good… so look skywards…
Two penguins and an armadillo?
Clouds permitting!
One of the UK suppliers of telescopes and other astro paraphernalia has a joke sticker they sometimes put on their shipping boxes: “May Contain Clouds”…