Well what a waste of a night’s imaging. All 5 hours of it. I lined up on the southern Pleiades and was ready to start the session and Abba came into the dome licked my hand and startled me. I jumped back and bumped the counterweight bar. Now note at this point I was auto guiding and had perfectly framed the cluster, it didn’t scream at me for loosing the guide star. What must have happened is that I very quickly bumped the scope and moved it to another guide star which it picked up on and happily kept going. I should have rechecked it but because I saw a guide star still being guided on I left it.
So here is a sample RAW from the 5 hours of wasted 4/5ths Southern Pleiades…………
I will post the final image later after i process it
