[h0ughy (David)]

I feel like a dill. I was in a rush last night and I did check the focus of the setup before I imaged – just forgot to remove the focus mask. As a result I took an hours worth of “focus mask stars of southern Pleiades”. I had a feeling something wasn’t right, but only went up to initially move the dome – but then stopped the imaging run to check the front of the scope - DER!!! Then I swapped the positioning as Cent A was coming out of the light pea soup over Newcastle. I then started to image it and then took 53 x 3minute shots of it. Yet to process anything but I am looking forward to my first NGC5128!!!