zicklurky

If you're looking for good Southern skies, I can recommend both South Africa and Namibia. VERY dark skies with fairly predictable weather and similar time zone so no jet lag. I've been to Hakos in Namibia and the skies were unreal. I grew up in South Africa, there are very nice skies outside of the cities. You can even do a trip to Sutherland and visit SALT https://www.salt.ac.za/

The ZWO ASI071 and QHY168C use the same APS-C sensor (same size as your Canon) and get good reviews. I have the QHY and love it. They're above your budget at about £1450, but you can get them used for about £900.

Looks great! I've got the same on order from FLO, looking forward to seeing your results.

Yeah looks like the Canon version accepts 1.25" and 2" filters, but the Nikon version only accepts 1.25"

Got the green light from the missus, I'm coming along Looking forward to it!! Heading to the Uk astro show on the way, woop!

Took me a while to get it working in Win 10 as well. But for me it was a driver issue, sounds like you're having port issues. The driver listed on the FLO website for the Win 8 install is the correct driver for Win 10 as well. When I inspected the device in device manager, Windows had installed about 5 different versions of the prolific driver, with the correct driver at the bottom of the list. I had to uninstall them all before Windows would use the correct driver.

Well done FLO! Pretty sure I make up at least a million of those. "Is it clearing?" No... (2 minutes later) "Is it clearing yet?" No... (2 minutes later) "How about now?" No... I'm like a 5 year old on a road trip.

Spectacular! Truly an incredible feat, huge congrats to the both of you! Full size in the science museum in London would be awesome!