[Maurice]

Originally Posted by PKay

Thanks Maurice, have added this beautiful galaxy to my list.

Well sought out and well done!

Thanks Peter. It is a beaut galaxy, albeit quite faint from the 'burbs.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Nice to see a new galaxy being imaged.

It looks to be a faint one. Nicely done.

Greg.

Thank you Greg.

Originally Posted by Startrek

Great capture of this rarely presented tiny faint Galaxy
Nicely processed too
Well done !!
How’s the backlash on your EQ8 as I have a new EQ8-R pro arriving in June ( so far most folk say it’s pretty tame and doesn’t cause to much of an issue. I’m assuming you have the older version ? )
Thanks

Martin

Thanks Martin.

The EQ8 has been a very good mount for me.
Backlash is significant in my example on the DEC axis & virtually non existent in RA.
Its manageable though with a slight imbalance in DEC.

I do have the older version; in fact I think it came out with the first shipment of these mounts when they were released.

I use an OAG when imaging & with an ASI290 guidecam I'm sampling at about 0.2"/pixel on my RC14. So far it has behaved very well. Attached is a guide graph from last night, Typically, on nights of average seeing, I get about 0.3-0.5" RMS guiding.

cheers
Maurice