The clouds parted for a few seconds and oops this happened!

[matt_man21]

Hey People,

This is my first proper Crack at Prime focus Imaging... Low and behold it was the moon! I recently saved up some pennies for a top secret auto guider project for a LX10 With some simple electronics and routing the translated autoguider commands through the hand controller input (Nasty but more on that later!)

So whilst waiting for the various components to arrive i decided to attach my new cheap and cheerful QHY5 autoguider to my to see how it performed with imaging... I Wasn't expecting too much so i Used my 4" F5 refractor for maximum Field of view and went for a nice bright large object... WOW! was really taken a back, Even with it's short focal length things snapped in to focus and was granted a rather pleasing view of the moon! I took about 300 frames (of which 50 were usable!) to try and even out the seeing as it's appaling tonight, Stacked them together in AVIstack a quick level adjustment in photoshop until the image pleased me...

[RogerTheDodger]

Nice sharp image, well done

[twotter]

That's great - really moody and mysterious