Nicola Hannah Butterfield

@JamesFand @Spaced Outthanks for your replies, mount isn;t the issue bar connecting with the comp. and yes @JamesFread alot of it, just wondered if the acro's might have worked in wider configuration

For cheap wider field than my 200P, I can do 300mm on my Canon lenses.

@Dazzyt66Not sure where in Donny you are but it is pretty flat, if you can see Venus you should surely be able to see Mirfak, I can see it in the finder scope well before it is dark. So I currently use, Sirius Mirfak the next one I use is a problem you might have Arcturus is my third, but it only just rising at 19.30UT. so 20.30. There is Procyon to use a replacement for Sirius, along with Regulus 40° above SE horizon. Capella in the east. I am in Upton, so look south over Donny and Barnsley(more west) and Sheffield further away, lovely southern aspect apart from the mentioned towns making where I live a Bortle 6, my best view are east, but a clear view pretty much from E to W,

Welcome from West Yorks.

Another first galaxy M106 and a new way to avoid outside, well almost

These two where amongst my first images just over two weeks ago, seems to me you know different stuff to me, but at the end of the day it about images, The flats darks bias will come.

Too full a frame on the current set up, to much vignetting

I might not have the mount computer controlled yet, but just about got everything else connect, well the bit's I have that can be. Remote screen grab of BackyardEos operating in the shaed

Well if nothing else I can at least now control the mount via the handset from the shed, and I won't need to go to the mount to adjust for any drift (hopefully)

That was taken on the upper patio, sheltered from next doors bathroom light, most of the rest of the stuff in a more open space of the garden, are showing light and dark areas that can't be removed by flats, so I have been thinking this morning if it is due to excessive light, hitting the focus tube, our southern aspect has an industrial site about 2 miles away, and looking back north is next doors bathroom window, lets put it this way I don't need extra light to adjust stuff, so it is possible its effecting the the light, i am going to see if I can make a dew shield to try and block any extra light, if the light patterns are better it will confirm I think thats is what is causing the patterns.

I am a bortle 6 and I did this the first evening I got the NEQ6 mount, 40 2s exposures @iso1600 on my Canon 6D.

@grievousIf your focuser 2" adaptor is like my 200P one it should be threaded to a T2 mount, other wise something like this https://www.rothervalleyoptics.co.uk/rother-valley-optics-t2-nosepiece-adaptor-125.html into the T2 mount, but chances are you will then need to use the barlow to acheive focus.

I just redid it with some flats, but because the tracking was off so much not really usable, there was a lot more in it.

Thanks 160 30's subs, just couldn't get tracking right last night. I guess I won't be capturing that anytime soon. It's actually quite a tight drop from a Canon 6D

This is a another first, and whilst I didn't get the computer talking with the scope, I did get the camera working, so short exposures and a ISO a bit high.

That's what the lady I care for said.

@michael.h.f.wilkinson Thank you. I was using a Sky Watcher 200P on NEQ6 Pro mount, and a Canon6D, I was going to try the40D but having thought I had charged the battery it was flat. I can't say my rendition of M101 was as good mind.

This is ny first attempt and only my third night with the new mount, I couldn't get 60's subs, so did 30's x130 of them.

@Louis D Sorry I get tunnel vision sometimes. I will withdraw unless something constructive to say.