Stevp

Looking really great! Looks like another washout weekend for me.

Heres hoping that all is well!

Less flicker and less hassle doesn't sound like a bad deal for the extra few quid. I can be in and out of my garage before the light comes on some times. Should look in to that really

Hi Scorpius, just wanted to say i'm enjoying seeing the progress and its looking great!

Thats great news Mike

Looking forward to it! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It really is a great site and good to see the continual development pat-on-the-backs all round Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My first half hearted attempt at anything other than M42. Here was my first go at M51 from last week. This is a cropped image taken with; Explorer 150p, Eq3-2 w/ dual motors, Canon EOS 600D The image was a stack from 18 of 30 images: 30s at iso1600 I've learnt, or at least clarified, several things. 1) I need a better mount 2) I need a better mount 3) My scope needs re-collimating (defocussed stars not quite round before I started) 4) I need to learn a lot about DSS and other software 5) I need to learn GIMP or buy Photoshop 6) I should perhaps look at a Bahtinov mask 7) I need to up my game on polar aligning for taking images rather than visual 8) Need to take many many more images when I do get something worth stacking 9) I need a better mount! Still very pleased with what I managed though!!