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These are my first ever DSO images after purchasing my new mount and scope (130pds and EQ5 Pro) last week, never had a EQ mount before so Its been a busy week reading "making every photon count", learning to polar align, how to use DSS, balancing the scope, setting to home position and worrying about cone error!, but last night it all sort of came together i think. M31 is only 6 x 120 sec frames a few dark ones stacked in DSS and processed in photoshop and the other is a single 136 sec shot of M52 with a slight hint (i might be mistaken) of the bubble nebula NGC7635 in the top right corner. I've tried not to be too harsh with the processing and I need a coma corrector i think but i'm very pleased with the start i've made. thanks for looking Jason