Hello and thanks all for your comments, I really enjoy this stuff and like many of my previous posts suggest, I have waited a LONG time to do this.
Robert_T .. Im afraid that no amount of fiddling and the like would make my previous mount (and I had 2 of them) track good enough for this sort of photography. Same camera same techniques as this photo.
and I thought I was past the biggest hurdle learning to drift align. Its one hurdle after another in this game, just when I had everything going good, I rotated the camera last night to frame M104 better and then NO and I repeat NO amount of changing calibration times would successfully work in CCDSoft5. It kept on saying movement too small in X axis ... and I could see the star move position NO problems, didnt matter that I could select a calibration time that would make the bloody thing slew the star out of the pic !!!
So a good night of imaging lost to I dont know what.
But I will be out there again tonight
