Was a great night, quite a few regulars and just as many first timers.
Conditions were great, seeing was better than average, sky was beautiful and clear and dark, just a little too much dew after 1am. The camera lens kept fogging up during exposure
I pretty much had a solitary night up the northern end of the field, coming to terms with my new setup and it's first light outside of home. I drift aligned early on with the scope on, then took the scope off and put my camera on the mount and did some widefield of Eta region, LMC and Orion.
As Saturn passed the north I put the scope back on and took a few avi's of Saturn, but the seeing wasn't that great to keep persisting with it.
So off came the scope again and back with the camera and lens, for some more of Eta region and then the 75-300mm stock lens @ 300mm for some omega centauri before I packed up at 1:30am. The last shot was 4 minutes (unguided) and zoomed in on the camera, I could see no trailing at all. It might be different at full res on the computer, but I was happy with how they looked on the LCD
Will hopefully post a few results in the next few days.
Was great to catch up with some old friends again, and meet some new ones including Okiscopey (Mike) and silwat (Michael). Silwat's 8" skywatcher was a beauty, after I helped him collimate it - it gave fantastic views of the jewelbox, Orion, Eta Carina and then (with my Pentax 7mm XW) Saturn.
Looking forward to next month.