[thegableguy (Chris)]

Shot this of M8 tonight. 20 x 2mins unguided, 10 darks, 10 flats.

I focused the scope as normal (by using Live View and zooming way way in) but the images turned out slightly unfocused. Like an idiot I didn't tighten RA properly before mount alignment, whoops - so it moved around a lot during the alignment process. Guess all that slewing threw it very slightly out of focus.

Anyway. Cautiously happy with the processing & editing - there's a fair bit more detail in there than any image I've yet done. Not sure if that's more to do with shooting at ISO 400 as opposed to 1600 or if I'm just getting better at the whole process. Either way, bummer about the focus but at least I feel like there's some progress being made. The fact I was able to drift align well enough for reasonably round stars at 2 mins is a small triumph.