Well the cloud gremlins decided to leave Phoenix for a few days in a row so I was able to do some double duty with my Vixen.  I did two consecutive nights of first capturing C7 as it was rising early and getting close to less than optimal just past midnight.  I opted to do two targets per night over two days and that ended up working quite well.  On the last part of each evening through to sunrise I shot M63 which I will post later.

Did a little research on C7 and found it was the first galaxy to be identified by Edwin Hubble to be outside of our Milky Way as he imaged the Cepheid variables in C7 to obtain the distance.  This is a very nice view and shape of a spiral galaxy and is visually very close in appearance to M33 in Triangulum.  The Ha red is a tad muted on this but I'm liking the details.

My current OSC flow is to sack with WBPP in PI, run DBE to clean the background.  Next I use SCC to color calibrate followed with BXT to mute the stars just a tad and sharpen up the nebulosity.  I like using my L-Pro filter as it lets more light in than my other Optolong NB filters and for galaxies that do not have significant nebulosity the gain in photons vs the very tight NB details for me is a fine tradeoff.  I usually follow up perhaps with a quick star extract and SCNR on the star layer to reduce/remove any green tinge to the stars.  I reassemble back with Pixel Math and use NXT to clean up the background noise.  I always then use HST to customize my tone mapping before exporting a .tiff to finalize in Photoshop.  Photoshop is mostly just some background cleanup using Levels and a very small enhancement with Hue/Saturation to brighten the colors.  I try to stay as true to natural colors as I can.  My new workflow along with the OTA setup is making for, I believe, some nice final shots.  My NYX-101 is performing very well.  It's not uncommon for me to see my performance in guiding hover around the 0.5" Total RMS Error, which is awesome in my book.