[davidpretorius]

Had a much better handle on the tracking and guiding. Basically align a planet, go into tracking mode, after say 30 or 40 seconds, adjust, and then adjust again, and then go into guide mode.

I had a loveley time viewing mars. Seeing kept swinging from 4/10 to 7/10. Not enough to toucam it, but compared a few ep's and barlows.

Orion was nice and high, so had another go with the long exposure.

Basically 10 seconds exposures. roughly 12 images each. They mainly vary with the gain settings. One was 80% and the other 90%.

CFA comverted in iris. darkened the background, median stack, gaussian filter, unsharp mask. Very quick jobs, star trails still present, but happy for night 2 of longer exposure work