[Startrek (Martin)]

After tuning my worm gears last Thursday to minimise some obvious backlash on the EQ6-R mount I managed to get the mount guiding ok at around 1.00am after battling with passing cloud earlier in the evening
Picked a test target in the south east, NGC 3324 Gabriela Mistral Nebula as I hadn’t imaged it for nearly a year.
Still have some work to do on the mount, mainly balancing
NexDome Obs
EQ6-R mount
8” f5 GSO newt
ZWOASI2600MC set in Ascom to highest dynamic range, cooled to -10C
Optolong L Extreme Filter
Baader MPCC coma corrector
30 x 3 minute dithered guided subs
40 x Flats
50 x Bias
Goto and tracking EQMOD and Ascom Stellarium
Framed focused and captured with APT
PHD2 Multistar guiding ( 0.75 to 0.85 arc sec )
Subs reviewed in Astap
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools V1.7 Linear data set OSC Narrowband Bi Colour versions in SHO

Comments welcome

Thanks