Perseverance is key. Up until now, the only half decent astro image I have captured has been of Pleiades, but that is now too low in a bright summer sky to capture any more detail until later on in the year. I was able to image Pleiades because I could pick out the recognisable arrangement of the Seven Sisters stars on the camera screen. This is not a reliable way to image much smaller, less visible objects. I have the MSM nomad which is a star tracker but it does not tell you where anything is. I attached my phone to the top of my camera (a very crude way to navigate the night sky and not wholly accurate). I pointed my camera into a region of the sky that I knew had the cygnus constellation in it. This is part of the milky way and I knew it would contain data that would make an image such that I was looking for. The image below shows part of the Cygnus constellation with the central star Sadr, and Deneb to the outer left side. This image is 10 minutes integration time with darks, biases and flats. Not sure the colouring is correct but I am very pleased with the outcome. At first, while processing the image, it just looked like a hot mess but soon I realised it was what I was looking for. Now that I have been successful, the skies seem to be cloudy for the next few days so this will have to do for now. R6 mk ii and RF70-200 f2.8L. Processed using Siril, Topaz and Photoshop ...
