[BC]

Finally we had a nice calm, clear night and I got a first real go at try some photography with my 500D. It was just attached straight onto the EQ6 with a home-made adapter using the 55-250mm lens. I used ISO 800 and took 8 x 30sec pics. The mount was just plonked down in my usual fashion so the polar alignment is pretty shoddy. I used Gimp to manually register and stack the jpgs (don't know how to do the same with the raw). I tried Registax but it didn't seem to cope with the file sizes at all. Anyway, I was pleased to see some colour.

PS - At 300kb the image still looked rather like the original, but the closer I get down to the 200kb limit, the more grey stuff appears. Not sure what I'm doing wrong there?

Bruce