Gina

Levered the print off the glass plate and it's taken some of the PEI with it! So that's it.

Well... it took a lot of fiddling to get PETG to stick to the PEI sheet. Got that sorted out earlier and left it to cool while I went out this afternoon. Now it's stuck firm!! Just tried to get the print off with a strong pair of pliers and broke the print rather than getting it off the PEI!! There seems to be just one way of getting the print off the bed and that's with the PEI sheet as well.

Regarding PEI sheet :- I'm having considerable trouble getting PETG to stick to this and think I shall end up pulling it off again!! Maybe it needs a higher bed temperature, I'll try increasing it.

Just checked my OIII subs in Blink in PixInsight and there was thin cloud or dew or mist as later subs were rather "washed out". Oh well, that's the way things go sometimes! At least I achieved solving and slewing to target (sort of). At least this software/firmware seems a lot more reliable than the Windows collection I used before and a lot easier to use.

I left my rig running and went to bed. Looks like I captured another 50 OIII subs of Cygnus but haven't looked at all of them yet. Went out this morning to find the observatory running with dew so I've left the roof open to let it dry off. Strangely there was no dew on the rain detector though it might have already dried off in the morning sunshine. Rain detector is not connected yet.

Actually, the focus could be better for the Ha. Camera lens are not fully apochromatic right into the far red so the focus is slightly different for Ha and SII as compared with OIII.

I think I have some cloud - the Cygnus Loop has turned misty. Thinking of packing it in myself.

Oh yes, I can see some bands of cloud lit up by the newly risen moon. Can't see any clouds straight up but there aren't as many stars showing as there sometimes are.

SII 120s exposure. For what it's worth!!

Cygnus Loop bottom right.

Ha is 30s, OIII is 60s This is OIII

Solving from part of Cygnus produced the right FOV. Why it doesn't work properly I don't know. Anyway, I can capture some data.

Solved original star field but not new capture.

I couldn't get the offline solver to work. Maybe I'll try again.

astrometry.net online solver is very slow.

55mm f1.8

It has worked - sort of - not quite right.

Yes. I've taken a previous image containing Cygnus, solved it and it's supposed to be slewing to target except that I can't see anything happening.

I have stars.

Might be dew but no - not foggy.

Lost the text... Polaris of hot pixel, I wonder.

I've just set up for imaging tonight. Opened observatory roof and connected up all the power. Back indoors run the remote RPi indiserver from Terminal and set up KStars/Ekos. Everything looks OK but only a dark sky full of stars will confirm that and that will be another couple of hours or so.

Oh yes indeed! Great fun though and very useful.

There would seem to be a possibility of imaging tonight as long as I stay away from the rising moon in the east.