Well.. After spending almost an hour messing around with guiding, I finally got to taking some images...
This shot was going to be done through the C11... however I could not get my DBK31 to come to focus in the M102 for guiding... which I must say, Really sucked... I had a quick look at the target through the C11, then mounted up the M102 on its own with the QHY8...
Gain:50
Offset:121
30x45second subs (22.5min total exposure)
Had a play with photoshop, but not too much done really..
I think focus was a little off, and one thing became immediately apparent... I need more data... As soon as I tried to agressively stretch the data it would become grainy... Im pretty happy with this image however, being of one of my favorite subjects, and being that the image showed that cleaning my QHY8 was the right thing to do
Thanks for looking.
Alex.
EDIT.
2nd image in this post is a complete reprocess of the data. I'm much happier now..