First Light Trius SX-9 - M51

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This is my first post of a DSO, culmination of about 8 months of learning ( I am a slow learner  ).  I finally gave up on using my Mallincam Universe OSC camera and obtained a Trius SX-2 on the CN Equipment exchange, along with a set of Astronomik II LRGB filters also from CN equipment exchange

This is shot from the suburbs of Toronto over 2 nights, 2hrs  (5 minute subs) of L and 20 min each of RGB, with a Meade 12" ACF on an LX 850 Starlock mount.

At this point I have not yet used the automatic drift alignment, or PEC training available on the LX 850.  I just wanted to capture some light, I hope to use some of these features to clean up tracking.

All processing in Pix Insight

M51