Yesterday the clouds decided to part and stay away during the night so I had to take to opportunity to play with the scope.
I started by taking a few shots with the 7D of the crescent moon and Venus setting in the west, I thought they were interesting so I thought I'd share.
Later in the night the seeing conditions were quite poor but I did see the GRS on Jupiter for the first time ever (I was starting to suspect that it wasn't real), so apart from the image being a bit soft, I quite happy with it since focusing it was like focusing through water.
I attempted to do some PHD guided long exposures on M42 and the Horsehead nebula, I got a very faintly visible horsehead but I couldn't do longer then about 5 minute exposures, I started to get streaking like star trails on it even-though PHD didn't lose the guide star, I'm pretty sure I was quite well polar aligned, so if anyone has any ideas what could cause this, please share the knowledge.
Needless to say I have nothing worth uploading from of last nights M42 or the HH.
