I decided to have a few hours without wheeling the big scope out and just try some photography with my D3200 on a tripod in the garden. My site suffers from a lot of light pollution; my visual limiting magnitude is about 4.4 on a good night.
I knew there would be lots of field rotation on a tripod, so I took multiple exposures and used Deep Sky Stacker to stack them together. I did two runs, one with 10s exposures and one with 20s exposures. The 10s exposures came out better when stacked.
Got some half-decent results:
Cassiopeia, stack of 10 10 second frames, Nikon D3200 with 55mm lens, Hoya "Image Intensifier" filter. Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker, post processed in Photoshop to darken sky background a bit.
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