Its a bit sad that's it almost Astrofest and we're still struggling to get a decent new moon weekend!
Hoping to get some time away with the kids next month - fingers crossed. I'm travelling for work around AF alas this year Rick. Might save me some money though not seeing what you have
The M8 was with the QHY9 (among first serious pics I took with it) with 1000mm (F5) focal length - FOV would normally frame M8 nicely but nothing like the arcsec/pixel you have. Peter Ward has commented before about the first 80% of engineering being relatively straight-forward, then to get more you're really have to pay for quality. Ahem - I think my image is struggling to be 20% of your first light snaps rather than 80%
