Last night the clouds stayed away and I was able to take a look from home.
While waiting for the moon to set I did a precise poloar alignment using K3CCDTools. It was amazingly easy & only took about 15mins! Got it pretty much spot on so that when guiiding only the RA was corrected (for Perodic Error). It made quite a difference to the final RAW's as I used to get a very slight field rotation, which annoyed me.
I decided to push the litlle 8" and give a couple of faint fuzzies ago... See attached.
NGC2207 galaxy is actually two galaxies coliding and is Mag 10.9! I was pretty happy to pull it in given the light pollution. Still it's not a stunner... 12x5min ISO1600 f/10.
IC2200 Toby Jug Nebula. Couldn't find a Mag for the neb but the central star is Mag 7.1. I wasn't sure what I'd get with it, but it's something. 7x5min ISO1600 f/10.
Both could have done with a darker sky & a bit more aperture. But hey, gotta be happy just to be out.
Cheers
PS... This should be my last DSO for awhile! Phew... I can here you say!
