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I was about to buy off Harry but mine worked with the supplied GPC so I didn’t bother. But he was good at emails it’s just his website is hard to work out.

Balancing was easy thanks to Steve’s guide on a thread. Alignment was ok too, fiddly but I’ve a lot of patience and am well used to working to very fine tolerances. It started snowing as I tried to locate ic443. I had Ha in one camera and Oiii in the other. All I managed was a rough initial focus on the moon at the start of the session. Hope to get out later if it clears up. At least both cameras are working though via APT 1&2, and guiding seems to be ok. Nothing to post star wise but I’ll try later.

First light with twin ED80s

An impromptu session this evening. First night out for the 10” in a few years.

Past few days I’ve gathered up bits and pieces to go ahead with a side by side ED80 imaging rig. Will need a few days fine tuning and assembly, I have adjustable rings to fall back on if I can’t it shimmed as it stands: Black ED80 DS SW FF 0.85x Canon T adapter 10mm aluminium plate, various pieces

Light pollution on my southern horizon:

I'm going to get a dehumidifer one of these days...

Nice bit of ice last night on the scopes. EXIF temp 4deg. Shame the mount didn’t guide properly ?

Thanks Grant for the update. Of course they are just for fun and they are most enjoyable.

But DSLRs were excluded from entering the Narrowband Challenge? Discrimination

250px, on EQ6!

I run mine all off a £28 PC off ebay, dual core, 2.something GHZ, 160GB HDD, 1 0r 2 gig of RAM. I think you will be ok.

As Lightbucket says it works very well with PHD and this will allow you to 'dither' your exposures, as well as platesolve to find targets. http://www.stark-labs.com/phdguiding.html https://openphdguiding.org/

AstroPhotography Tool sounds suitable for your job Alan. https://ideiki.com/astro/Default.aspx

I’m trting to work out what you mean by sand? Obviously a language thing but I can’t work it out!

Testing out the new finder guider. Pleased to say it works, but it’s now snowing so quickly packed up.

New one to me too. It’s beautiful, what a great image.

Looking forward to trying this out. Arrived today, and looks like the spacer ring was included in the box with it!

The standard of those images is phenomenal. Well done to everyone.

Thats huge! Looks like a grenade. I'm sure it'll give amazing views.

Arrived today! Warranty replacement for faulty ones. Fantastic service from Dan at Celestron, tried to fix the ones I sent back but couldn’t do it so new set sent out. He personally tested the new set before they were posted, and after a brief try tonight I can say I’m very pleased.

More stuff arrived today! 2x and 3x Barlows Bhatinov mask - doesn’t quite fit the 12” but easily modified T-adapter SW motorised focuser Fast delivery and well packaged, thanks to Ian at Green-Witch.

This thread is just jam packed with amazing images! Thanks everyone for posting! @dyfiastro that’s a super widefield of the bubble neb and friends!