Lodestar-C last night

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Clear skies at dusk [still looking on my unobstructed northermn horizon for NLC each clear night !] but later broken cloud curtailed the brief session.  Use Lodestar-C+SX s/ware on 30cm f/3.4 SCT including e-finder.  

My alignment goto was the gibbous moon in SW - too big for tiny Lodestar chip - sample shot below in 1/300s with scope 50% blocked by obsy dome to cut down on its brilliance - 1/1000s is min exposure via SX s/ware but still not brief enough for the moon!  Got a few shots around the disk for a later moon mosaic.  Then to Saturn to record its moons to compare with previous shots especially faint Hyperion .  

With advancing cloud from SW swung scope to east and blazar Q2251+158 @ 10BLY in Pegasus currently in outburst but from quick shots through thin cloud it may be fading!  My old dome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-Tg50OciY partially block my view east so got onto blazer earlier but very low down!   Did some gxs nearby too.  Cloud cover almost complete except for zenith so final shots of Ring Neb M57.  Will expand post with pics later

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Here's a brief shot of blazar in Peg before lost in cloud and Ring Neb - all 20s shots.  The 2nd M57 passed through SX s/ware fixed value "smooth/sharpen" filter.  This filter meant for planetary images but works fine on bright DSOs too !

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Here's a quick 5-pane moon mosaic