Hi all again...
Have had a ball imaging the two comets that were naked eye (well almost) and travelling to nice vantage points a few kms from home as the western horizon is not too good here.
Finally unpacked the car and re-setup my 6" newt and done a quick polar alignment and quickly plugged in my shoestring goodies and the Toucam.
I love this autoguiding! feels like I am cheeting a bit after handguiding for the last few years
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Used PHD guiding on its default settings and camera set at 1 sec intervals and DSLR shutter for the camera then just sat back...
. The moon was still high and the newt hadn`t cooled down completely but I was very excited to have some fun..
This image is Tuc 47 which is 6 images at 4 min iso 400 and 4 images at 1 min for the core. Very happy with the results...
Done some deeper exposures of the Formax galaxy cluster (inspired by Mikes shot) later after the moon had set with 100% guiding success..
Handguiding success for me is usually would be maybe 80%.
I almost fell asleep during the 1+ hour session at midnight..
Did I mention I love this autoguiding!!
cheers and thanks for looking