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Originally Posted by Robert_T
Thanks DP!  Hadn't viewed your instructional stuff before - impressive and generously informative, you may well be responsible for starting up a Dob-Toucam revolution of planetary imaging 
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Thanks for kind comments, but this style of imaging started for me, by following in Iceman's footsteps. He has since got a tracking platform & I will follow with getting tracking as well.
Last night in point.
- Temperature difference between mirror & ambient .3 degrees = Excellent
- Collimation = still great
- Seeing with an eyepiece = average say 5/10
- Guide scope aligned
At the end of the day, mars was moving around so much, it was not worth the 1 hour spent to try and focus and align to the viewer.
Tracking will quicken this job up!
So nothing to work with unfortunately
Very disheartening - but thems the breaks!
So out came the eyepieces and I had a loveley 1 hr scan of the heavens with all my usual suspects for this time of the year