Here's the first pic I processed from Tuesday night at Ilford. 2h in 2min subs with the ED80 and QHY8. Seeing was excellent. Looks like I'll have to tweak the flattener spacing a bit especially obvious in the blue channel. These nebulae are very faint and burried in a very busy part of the milkyway so it was hard to process them out of the starry background.
I had some minor glitch with tracking and sudden random jumps in RA and DEC. While packing in the morning I discovered that the camera rotator on the P-FLAT IV was loose and the whole assembly was falling out sideways as the mount was tracking... live and learn.
Hope you enjoy the shot. There's a big 1:1 full field
here [7.2MB] . As always thanks for looking and tips welcome
