[vash (Ashley)]

well finally, after 5 months of having all this gear I finally managed to get it all set up and working, eventually.
I first decided to do an accurate drift align, thought I was doing well as I only needed to fix up a little, but I couldn't remember which knob turn which way and where it moves the mount, so I was turning it the wrong way obviously, after I'd finished setting up, I realized my mistake and quickly fix that back up.

I then attached all the cables and all was working, opened up PHD for the first time, selected camera, connected the scope, set the expose and selected a star, hhmm, that was easy, took a few shots and there was obvious PE, took about 3 hours to figure out I hadn't set up the program right, I have now learned how to do the PHD hookey pokey and first shot, perfect, I couldn't believe it, 3 minutes now streaks!, I was very happy indeed, although by this time the moon was up and washed out my images,

I did press on and took 24 x 2 minute exposures of the keyhole, and as I was disassembling everything I decided to take some darks, which work too.

All that is only half the story, ra calibration failure, laptop dying, dew settling on everything etc.
So here it is, my first autoguided light,