Aah yes - writing down the steps is a good idea! If I miss out on a month's worth of imaging due to bad weather, I usually come back and forget a critical step
By the way, I just found this very excellent article with step-by-step instructions and screen shots - in retrospect, it would have saved me much frustration:
http://astro.azurewebsites.net/Article/ArticleContent/5
The article reminds me of a couple of things that I forgot below:
* I use 2x2 by default with the Lodestar (SX recommends it in their manual too) - I get fewer image artefacts and faster update rates too.
* Dark frame scaling has never worked well for me on the Lodestar (even with a bias frame library) - so I prefer to take darks at lots of different exposure durations. Unlike a dark frame library for 30 min narrowband exposures, this doesn't take long
