Last night at 10 Chain Hill started out with a few burn offs going on around the area but by dusk the smoke had cleared and the stars came out. It stayed crystal clear till around 2:30 when scattered clouds started appearing from the east.
My gear basically ran on autopilot most of the night as we all had a play with pmrid's new titan mount with a C14 on top. Once we got his mount pretty close to dialed in, peter plugged in the hyperstar and QHY8 which makes it an F2 14" light sucking monster. I could not believe how fast it slewed the scope and the 4 massive counter weights around. Something like 800x I believe. Good idea to stand back while it's slewing
Here's what I got from the night, all shot with the TAK FS60CB :
Conona Australis: 1hour each RGB (10min subs) binned 1x1.
SMC: 1hour Lum(10min subs) binned 1x1, 15minutes each RGB(5min sub) binned 2x2.
M45: 15minutes each RGB(5min sub) binned 2x2.
Clouds cut imaging on the SMC short and the last couple of REDs are dodgy due to high cloud. The 1x1 Lum from M45 was also lost due to cloud. And once again, FLATS didn't work at all
