It's all my fault.
Rob was over. We did drift align just fine...then I didn't set the park position correctly so we couldn't do a mount star alignment. I don't have an EQ6 myself but I managed to get it all wrong like a seasoned pro!
Then I forgot to do up the AZ bolt under the mount head...so after the drift align...the first pic...."Star drift"!
. Instead of fixing it we just took some quick'n dirty subs.
We also had troubles with his 12V PSU...it had the unfortunate ability to slip partly out of the EQ6's power connector & re-set the handset at the most in-opportune times!
Anyway we pointed the scope at a few quick targets & did some reduced length subs...around 15 seconds x 20 or so for each.
I'm actually surprised by the light gathering ability of Robs 8" F4 scope...damn it's quick in getting light to the image plane...maketh for short bright exposures! It has some field curvature for the short FL but this could be fixed with a baader MPCC...or image crops.
It's a learning curve! Next time we will nail it.
But I do like that OTA!
We will do it all again soon Rob
Edit:
Lets send the Tiffs to Bojan for photo manipulation
...I suck at this!