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What gets me with socks is you never seem to be able to match them all up when they come out of the washing machine. So do they get separated BEFORE they go in the wash, or does the Washing machine gobble them up? My husband has a drawer of unmatching socks hoping their partners will turn up some day. 🤣

Congratulations, and well deserved. You normally only see half of the nebulosity on this target, yours shows the whole Nebula. Carole

Love it. Carole

Can’t believe how much detail you have got in one shot and no tracking. Amazing. Carole

To be honest l could slightly rotate the scope in the tube rings. Just never remember to do that.

I have been using the finderscope foot for donkeys years for the guide scope. I have never had any flex with it. Mine is in fact a converted finderscope. I guess you need to make sure the foot fits tightly. The only disadvantage l have found that being to one side the balance in Dec is a little lop sided, but doesn’t seem to affect guiding. Carole

Very nice result. Carole

Whjat are you using for power and is it 12V?

Nice work. Carole

Excellent, well done. Carole

Excellent work and results. Carole

That’s very nice. Carole

Wow!!

The only time I have ventured out to anywhere apart from a camping site I took another Astro chum with me. The only reason I went then was to capture comet Neowise which was behind the houses where I live. Normally I go to Camping sites where there are other people around, either other astronomers or sometimes Joe public. Feels safer that way. Carole

OMG, these are stunning. Carole

Welcome, l envy your skies. Carole

Thanks Tezz. I suspect he is too far away. Carole

Yesterday when I gathered all my collected imaging data from my two laptops of my dual rig. I discovered I had taken 46 subs at 300secs binned x 2 when it should have been 600secs unbinned - duh!! Luckily I had data from previous 3 evenings and other scope, so mixed it all up. How did I not notice, especially when I was checking everything on screen from indoors once it was up and running? Facepalm. Carole

Wow, as primarily an imager I had heard the name banded about but not had this system explained before, what a good idea. I should say, that I can become very familiar with star patterns even using my goto, as some targets are dim and not discernable until after you have perhaps taken images and stacked them. Since I don't use Platesolving, I frequently study images of the target I want to image and then check all the star patterns match. Sometimes I have to move the mount to get the target central even though I can't see it. Carole

Still noisy despite 14 1/2 hours, but that's Bortle 8 for you with the fainter stuff. Carole

Crumbs sounds a real ordeal. Well done for persevering. Carole

Great observatory. If you say the guys had a four hour drive home, can you tell me where they are based please. I am asking on berhalf of some-one else I know who is wanting to get an observatory built. Carole

Sorry to hear about what happened. However I have been imaging for 12 years or so now, and the only time I tried to tie my cable up I caused more problem than letting them hang. One of the cables nearly got pulled out at it's socket. So I simply tie back the first part of the cables and let the rest hang. Never had a problem since. Carole

Taken in Bortle 8 skies. over 4 nights Dual Rig Atik460EX & SW ED80 Atik460EX and SW ED72 Ha (both scopes) 20 x 600secs Ha ED72 46 x 300 binned in error RGB 16, 11 & 15 x 300secs binned respectively Total imaging time 14 1/2 hours

Lol, yes I had a chat with some-one at Astrofest about that topic. I had no idea.