QHY8 First light - M20

[that_guy (Tony)]

First light with QHY8, only had time for one object with shortish exposure due to the moon. Had some issues with dust on the camera but flats to the rescue! Cleaned the sensor and the IR filter a bit with a blower, hopefully it'll be a bit better next time.

21x 5min exposure w/ flats and bias (no darks)

Full resolution image

[Benjamin (Ben)]

Looks great to me!

[ChrisV (Chris)]

Nice Tony. It looks like its going for a walk through space, followed by a few friendly stars ...

You mentioned you has some guiding problems - looks OK here?

[that_guy (Tony)]

Yeah chris, i think dec wasnt guiding but my polar alignment made up for it. I set it to north, south and auto but it either made it worse or made no difference at all. This was with just ra guiding.