M83 with from Snake Valley last weekend.
My first real crack at a galaxy with the RC8 with the fancy new motorised Moonlite focuser that finally arrived last week.
I originally ordered the focuser in January, and it was sent it to my studio but mis-addressed to the wrong suite.
After 3 weeks of attempting to deliver it to a non-existing suite in my building USPS sent it back to the USA!
Ron then received it & resent it, to my home address in, wait for it - AUSTRIA!
Another lap or two around the world later, commonsense finally ruled at USPS and it arrived safely in Melbourne
Nice piece of engineering, I'm impressed
Still some known collimation issues to sort, and I've attempted to address the resulting star issues with Startools repair function (gasp! yes, I know - apologies to all the purists).
Overall though, I'm reasonably happy with the result.
Looks kinda softish though, I suspect that's down to local seeing conditions and maybe the collimation defects? Anyway, lots to learn from this.
2.5 hrs Lum & 90mins ea of R,G & B (+4hrs Ha from Home.)
Galaxies are so cool and so pretty -
this one is 15 million light years away!
C&C welcome - be kind
