Went to the Messier star party last night and I wanted to do a 3 panel mosaic of Eta Car, but unfortunately I was not able to solve my guiding problems. One of the axes misbehaved all night. Tomorrow I will perform autopsy on the old EQ6. I bought it second hand many years ago and I always used it with short focal length instruments until now.
The attached image is a roughly processed bunch of 59 minutes of not very good subs - due to poor guiding. Full frame of QHY8 resized to 40%.
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