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Fantastic,where in La Palma are you going? What about a mount,are you taking one with you or hiring one out? Good luck on your journey..hope the skies are as good as they say they are..ive been thinking of going

Alignment should start in the West and end up in the east and the first alignment star will be out the most so I'd use a big bright star such as Capella ..alignment should also be away from the pole and meridian....id choose the biggest brightest stars and accuracy to centre them in the ep is better done with a illuminated crosshair one..not sure on the mount you'e using but on my celestron I can park in home position and hibernate, meaning all my star alignment is saved..just a case of waking up and then sync on a star near my target for the night..only ever need to re-do if the calibration is too far..which is normally 2-3 weeks

I'd suggest cranking up the gain or exposure to get a higher snr on the guidestar

I was out looking at our very own nuclear fusion producer..white lights fun and for the price of some baader film cheap too

What did you send down with wet and dry?

It could be anything..such as internal reflections ..but if it was a single frame of say even 10 secs it didn't move much.. On a different note,why are you using a cls light pollution filter at what looks like a dark sky location?

They pop up on ABS quite frequently

The one with the smallest bandwidth should give you higher contrast ,smaller stars and better in light pollution..its only if you're getting down to the 3nm bandwidh that you could use in all the moon phase.. I use a 6nm astronomik and had the 12nm one beforehand and both have been excellent in performance..Ha requires fairly long exposures to really see the details..i have a soft spot for a HA image..love that contrast..

Terrific image..never seen it done like that before..dust,star colour. Simply brilliant,will give that a go myself..thanks for the inspiration

A second-hand ed80 frames m45 perfectly and they pop up fairly frequently at about that figure too..try and get the reducer also

Woah... you say it' stiff in both axis but DEC don' look too bad..hows your balance in RA?

This might help with the setting circles..

Anyone there comment on the weather (cloud) I had a mini drama today and have just finished sorting it out..will keep an eye on the weather and hopefully it be clear tomorrow night

Sorry just read the thread on here..responded via your message

CLOUD... You not missed much!