[AlexN]

Thanks Trevor! Feels good to be back!

Big project on the go at the moment! I'm 8hrs in so far on luminance and it's starting to shape up really nicely!

I thought I'd struggle to get fired up and figure out how all this works again, but the physical process of getting set up, balanced, polar aligned and running has all come back fairly quickly.

The software has changed so much in my break though which took some time to get a handle on. Last I did this, I was running ccdsoft v5, N.I.N.A is a very different world, but it's turning out to be amazingly powerful.

That's why I bought an ST8300, I'm at least coming back with the exact same camera I had when I left... same mount (I think it's actually the exact g11 I used to own), and a short refractor to make life a little easier on myself.

It's all going perfectly to plan so far... I'm really looking forward to getting really involved again and hopefully producing some images worth showing.