Peter_A

Pete put an old camping mat around the end of your scope it makes a great dew shield and will stop your secondary mirror fogging up.

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Sorry Mark I only just spotted your tip. Thanks, I'll see if I can find one of those in my local shops. Yet more weight though, maybe I'll try making a short extension for my balance weight bar.

Pete.

14 x 2 minute subs, ISO 400. I would have taken more subs but the mist was gathering and the dew was bad. I had to use my 12v hair drier on the secondary mirror and the objective lens of my guidescope. Not long after that my laptop died (it runs from the same 12v battery).

I could process the ring nebula to make it less over blown but I was trying to make the galaxies show up, they are more visible in my hi res versions compared to the low res ones I uploaded.

Pete.

Thanks to Quatermass I too went down the shoestring road with my EQ5/200P. I had my first successful guided AP session last night (Friday 07SEP12) using a QHY5/ST80 and PHD.