[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Well another really hot night with the DSLR, 26th weather 42 deg and the scope was in my garage getting really hot, so i am not expecting too much. There has been a little registax touch on these image but overall not majorly altered.

RAW files gave me a lot of abilty to manipulate things lik white balance but as I am still learning I would apprreciate some feedback.

Something of interest though about halfway through closeups I decide to test colimination through the barlow and it is way off. I will need a barlow coliminator to take any more closeups to get better focus along with motorised mount.

Still i enjoyed the whole episode and definately as i progress feels Astroimaging will be the way to go in the future for me.

First image Full shot - 1/800 @ ISO200, the wonders of 12" to get high speed without motion blur.

Second and other closeups 1/325 @ ISO1600, all of the images had RAW file manipulated extensively regarding noise reduction as the noise levels were horendous. But blurry though and depth of field a bit limited. I believe this has something to do with the scope being F5 and may get a better DOF with a F7 or above. Hope someone can shed some light on this though just in case I am wrong.

Took heaps of closeups not enough in a single post will add some more later as i process them.

Thanks for looking.