[gerry aarts (Gerry)]

Hi All,

The weather turned good last night but too late to set up at our WSAAG club observing site at Linden in the Blue Mountains.
So I set up at home at Cranebrook and stayed up until 4 am this morning.
The Omega Centauri Cluster did not rise above the tops of the surrounding trees until 2.00 am.

This was my second opportunity to use the Celestron GPS11 with f1.8 Hyperstar and the new DSI III camera.
The DSI III Envisage software previously kept crashing but after re-installing and using a powered USB hub, all worked well
It does consume a lot of memory and slows down the laptop, but at least it worked.

This is a combination of 40 x 15 seconds exposures. (8 minutes at f1.8 is the equivalent of around 120 minutes at f10)
I was set up` in altazimuth mode so was limited to 15 – 30 seconds exposures. Not a perfect picture but a pleasing one.
I notice most images of the Alpha Centauri cluster do not show nice colour, and the DSI III seems to do so very well.

Hope you like it.
Gerry Aarts
WSAAG http://wsaag.org