[desler]

Well sort of, light cloud rolled in about 4.30am. mind you i was getting a bit cold by this time anyway.

To cut a long story short, got myself a new fetheartouch focuser and digital drive, and after much mucking around and re-installing drivers for just about everything astro related on the lappy. I managed some images.....

I did however have problems using focus max, when I ran the first light wizard it kept failing with a fault listed in the log like, failed to find maxim main window, failed to find maxim ccd window ????? Anyone had this problem? I'd appreciate some feedback. I finally got the Maxim focus routine to get some decent V curves and set about two targets.


First was a second go at the Helix, 12 x 10 min subs, with the Qhy8pro through a LPS filter, no moon, but still get gradients from suburbia.

Second was 15 x 10 mins subs of NGC 1316 and 1317 in the Fornax Galaxy cluster with the same set up.

Comments / tips / suggestions appreciated.


Darren