You know those nights where things just don't go as you'd hope. Well, this was one of them. What made it worse is that I didn't know until the following morning!
I've recently started using Sequence for acquisition which is a part of the software package for running my DDM60. It's autofocus routine is very good unlike SGP, there is very little downtime between frames.... Unlike SGP.
What I found out is ALSO unlike SGP is that you cannot change your sequence on the fly. I started the sequence with on 1 hour of acquisition which I noticed a few minutes later and changed it to 7 hours to which is told me the finishing time and the altitude NGC 3576 would be at that time. So I went to bed.
Woke up at 6am to start packing up and noticed that it hadn't done a meridian flip. Checked the laptop and only 30 images had been captured in over 7 hours and I quickly knew why! More than that, nearly half of that had been cloud affected (I was expecting a few passing clouds at first). So, lesson learned.
Here is NGC 3576 with 38 minutes of data and a few reflections from stars outside the field.
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Cropped and reframed version
