Hi all
After having finally done a solar true south alignment on my mount yesterday I was determined to get out in my obs last night before moonrise due around 11.13pm. So I waited for nightfall only to be confronted with strong winds from the NW. The wind finally abaited around 9.30pm and I grabbed my flt110 and headed out. This was also my first chance at reconnecting my setup to my old desktop which I had installed in the obs earlier in the week prior. By the time I had connected everything and re established the link between CCDOPS and the ST2000XCM and had done a 2 star alignment etc conditions had changed again and I found the moon already showing itself and also a cloud bank moving across the sky. Not to be detered I homed in on ngc3293 and it's close neighbour ngc3324 which was my chosen target for the night. Unfortunately due to the continuing build up of high and low cloud I was only able to shoot 5 exposures through the veil of high cloud.
I hope you like the result it's not what I wanted ... at least an hour would have been desireable on this object.
NGC3293 was also in the framing of this image but it detracted from the nebula so I have cropped the image to exclude it. I think the Gem Cluster is a target best displayed on it's own as well so I'll image it accordingly another night when there is no cloud.
I also attach a shot of NGC3372 from 4-03-09 that I hadn't processed to date ( 59 minutes total exposure )
NGC3324 details :
5x360 sec exposures
WO flt110 f7 apo triplet
st2000xcm @-11C self guided in CCDOPS
eq6 pro _ baader mpcc, uv/ir filters