NGC7000 project - early stage

This might be one of my bigger projects. I always wanted to put a lot of efford into imaging the Northamerica Nebula and the Pelican Nebula. There are 3 funny and nice nebula patches below them also.

The black area approximately shows the area of the finished mosaic. Unfortunately I made an error aligning the scope in the way I wanted. This first shot should have been at the fringe of the mosaic, so I had to adapt. I'll do 3 vertical frames and 4 horizontal frames.
The color is unmodified, this is how the cam sees it throug the H-alpha filter. It doesn't look too bad to not desaturate it, actually .
I'm pretty happy with it, thinking about some light pollution got through, it was a bit out of focus and the fact that it's only a 30 minute exposure!
(greatly reduced in size though, of course)
I so love my newfound hardware and astroimaging abilities!

Edit:Replaced with a slightly sharper version.

To do for this project:
[ ] finish the 7-shot mosaic
[ ] accumulate at least 7 hours of H-alpha data
[ ] apply flat fields
[ ] aquire a second channel
[ ] aqure a third channel

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Main Scope: GSO 8" f/4 Newtonian
Guide scope: Bresser 60mm f/15 achromatic refractor (a pain in the ass!)
Guide cam: Logitech Quickcam 5000 pro internals
Camera: astromodded Canon 350D
Additional optics: Celestron MPCC (Coma Corrector), Astronomik 2" H-alpha filter (12nm)
Exposure: 3x 10' @ 9 °C
Darkframes: 9 @ 9 °C
Flatfield: -
Mount: fast goto/computer modded EQ6
Additional Mechanics: selfmade motor focus
Location: Germany, medium city (Braunschweig = Brunswig in english)
Other: some light pollution actually penetrated the filter, focus not perfect

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Aligning: Cartes du Ciel
Autoguiding: Guide Dog
RAW conversion: Canon Utilities (DPP 3.7)
Preprocessing: Photoshop CS2
Stacking: Photoshop CS2
Postprocessing: Photoshop CS2