I took my TEC180FL to my dark site over Easter. Clear skies every night despite rain in Sydney. It was quite windy 2 nights and I lost one night because of a silly dither plugin that became active in CCDSoft. I did not even know it was there. It somehow became active after a power failure and restart. Guiding then went bad. Anyway I eventually found it.
I got nearly over 5 hours before the moon came up but only could use 4:40 of it.
This is quite low in the northern sky but you can still see the tidal stream of stars on NGC3628.
TEC180FL, TEC Flattener, FLI Proline 16803, Tak NJP mount, Astrodon Gen 11 filters.
LRGB 130 30 60 60 (30 minutes of red was no good and was lost) all 1x1, 10 minute subs and -35C.
http://upload.pbase.com/gregbradley/...70783/original
http://upload.pbase.com/image/134286870 Leo Triplet showing galactic integrated flux nebula (interstellar nebula).
http://upload.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/134287375 inverted image
Greg.