[Stephane]

Hi all,

Below is my first ever attempt of deep sky astrophotography.

I only have 25 minutes of integration so far as it took me hours to set up, and I don't yet trust myself to set up the equipment to work autonomously while I sleep. I didn't have time to do any calibration frames either. Hopefully in coming nights, I will add data and get some calibration frames.

Guiding, surprisingly, was fantastic given I just plugged in recommended parameters (from Martin) and obtained an total error of < 0.65 arc seconds.

May I just give a huge thanks to Martin who has given me much high quality advice.

Regards,
Stéphane

Telescope: BT200 f/5
Mount: EQ6-R
Filter: Optolong L-Extreme
Camera: Nikon D7000

30s x 50 = 25 min integration
No calibration frames
Pre-processed & processed using PixInsight (Trial version)