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Originally Posted by LonelySpoon
Fantastic night last night for me, at long last!
Went to the obs just after the eclipse started, spent time taking camera photos to share with the kids, 80km away in clouded-out Canberra.
Got the dome rotating in sync with the scope, although it went haywire and I had to go back to manual. At least I can get it to go 'home' by itself. This was the first time I've got that far.
Got NINA AF going gang-busters on the ZWO and ED80 refractor. Again, a first, with HFR of 2.3 and compliance of 9.7. Another first!
I got a lot of so-far unprocessed shots of Moon & Jupiter, then moved over to M42 and again, lovely imaging available for me to muck up  .
Then I thought, The Horsey isn't far away, so had a shot at it. By now it was 2.00am and I was cold and tired, but it came out of the background in two 120s mono shots with the CE filter.
First time for that, too!
During the evening the dew came up, the cables got tangles and stopped the scope, the QHY cameras (OSC imager and mono guider) kept getting into arguments, Celestron focuser would drop out, dome slaving failed and I got cold.
Best night I've had for years! 
Neville Ex-admiral of LSO |
Loved reading that Admiral, read it twice actually, just to savour imagining being there with you, look fowardt to seeing your mucked up results
I noted my CCTV camera at Eagleview was icing over, so, it must have been clear up there too
I must install my Occulus Pro ASAP, so I can check the cky properly...lazy ******* I am...
Mike