A bit of help.

[Skyhawk (Justin)]

Geez, where do I start? After what seemed like a successful polar alignment using AlignMaster, I seem to get the Azimuth bang on but the altitude never seems to get quite pin point, not sure if it's just the build quality of the EQ5 or what?

Any did some imaging over the weekend, I had a 60Da on loan and so I though I would give it a bash.
I managed 60sec exposures and they looked fine on BYE.

My stars are making little circles and don't seem nice and round and fuzzy, also, there seems to be serious field rotation but only on the one side of the image...any idea why? Never had this before and it's every frame.

Have a look at the attached file and please offer some words of advice.
Feeling a tad frustrated.

http://astropix.co.za/deepsky/m8_justin.jpg

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Focus is out for a starter, that makes for the 'little circles' effect. Getting it right can be a real PITA, I know, it's critical. Did you use a Bahtinov mask ?
The doubling of star images to the left is unusual, and the coma effect on the right confuses the whole thing. Which scope were you using ?

[Skyhawk (Justin)]

I did use a Bahtinov Mask, seemed fine at the time, but ok, will work on that a little more.
I'm using a Skywatcher 8" Newtonian.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Yep. That's just a focus issue. Easily fixed. You don't have field rotation. Assuming you're using a newtonian I'd say your secondary is not centered under the focuser. It's shifted towards the left of the field. That's why you get seagull shapes on the right.

[Skyhawk (Justin)]

I lay in bed last night racking my brain about it and realised then that it had to be the secondary mirror, so a huge thanks for confirming that.
So out with the collimator again! I tried the live Bahtinov focusing on BYE 3.0 but perhaps I shot do it test shot for test shot.
There are no short cuts

Thanks for the help.