[beren]

Thanks guys for the feedback I appreciate it, Tony I do have a IDAS filter but have lent it to Paul to see how it would go with his setup and skill . Andrew no guiding just used the LX200 as the tracking platform for the Orion 80mm , with good polar alignment and pec training it gives good results up to the 4>5min mark.Tony thanks very much for the rework, I can email both images straight from stacking and calbration to you if your keen just PM me and anyoneelse that would be cool. Tony this is my first attempt using images plus as the focusing/capture/calbration/stacking vechile with my D70 using a Hap griffin cable and usb cable for download to the laptop . I didnt want to get it to complicated so the images are all in JPEG format and unfortunately rezing it here on the forum its a little degraded from the pic on my PC screen . The final image was simply adjusted automaticaly with the digital restoration function in Images Plus , hopefully I can rework it so its more presentable plus I have ten images exposured for 1min on M42 that i was going to add.Cant believe how cool it was to control focusing and capture from the laptop and have all the exposures controlled ....simply awesome