[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

First light with the scope now that we have moved in to our new home at Murrumbateman... yay!

It was very cold last night, I was working in subzero temps for most of the night, it was tricky keeping the scope at ambient even with the cooler running flat out.

The seeing was spectacular - almost certainly the best yet for this year. Gotta love these clear winter nights :-)

Here's the very first image of the night, taken at 7.30pm local time - just before I came in for dinner. I have a lot more images, but it takes a while to process them...

Details:

13.1" f/5.5 newtonian @ f/41
Dragonfly Express mono camera
40fps all channels

Processing: the usual 5 or 6 steps - apologies if this seems over processed to some :-)

regards, Bird