Cheers guys, I try and snap the old triffid every year, I like the colours I guess.
This would be normal guiding for me Paul. That's with an OAG at about 1.2meters with the qhy5LII, so tiny pixels. 2sec exposures seems to work best. I didn't want to push the image too hard or the gradients would come back
Focus is the real issue with the steel tubed newt. You really need to watch it as it shifts a fair bit during the night.