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Quick and dirty Pleiades stackig. Its been a while

oh no. My meade hand box has died. Trying to revive it but looks like an upgrade is imminent 

Running 30x2 min subs on Sadir region. Full spec modded 1100D 135mm on the EQ 3-2. Got to love this time of year.

Will run some UCH filter too.

After the pacman sucess im guiding on the bubble and M52 tonight and all on plan

Little experiment with the newly full spec modded 1100d with uhc filter on a 135 pentax super takumar. Unguided on the eq3 on the veil.

First clear night in ages and with a FREE fullish moon

set up on a forecast from clear outside app sayng 0% cloud all night long......... yeah right

Done a HA baader mod on 1100d thats now turned into a full spectrum mod as the IR glass broke. Got to get ir/uv filter now. Oh well

Not counting my chickens but i think i got the GRS 

Wasted an hour trying phd2 gone back to 1

Virgin are closing thier webspace but doing a free godaddy account instead so set meself up a little astro site

www.ortonsite.uk

hmmm yahoo is n one. Just can not get onto SGL observatory group for the  focuser libraries

bagged catalina tonight. stacking now

close to getting the comet catalina in frame and the clouds roll in. cant complain this last week tho

M81 and M82 last night, M51 tonight. on a roll. guide graph looking better too.

guiding from house pc using remote desktop

Set up in clearish skye then guess what ?Another grey out

Well ive built my dew controller box and a few straps. Need a cloudless dewy night to test it :)

nice couple of hours observing. first try at star hopping around auriga and was quite sucessful with it. 4 messier clusters chalked up. Too breezy and cold for the sketchpad though.

At last a few hours of observing in the bag. Sketched M81,81 and 42 tonight. flocking has made a huge difference.

Made 3 dew straps so far, one more to go. Then a 4ch control box

cold and damp with a near full moon. But its clear now so im out there

Trying the old 35mm MTL5 on the eq3-2 tracked mount.

Out at last(damn clouds). Trying m31 to compare the new canon against the old oly

first time out in a while (clouds)

flocking