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Hi All

Clear weather last night so I set everything up and then disaster struck, my LVI smartguider wouldn't work, it kept stopping in the callibration phase. So in a hurry I got my Starlight Xpress M8C out and connected it to the TMB and used that to auto guide, I had to set it to binned mode as the 3.15 micron pixels are a bit insensitive and as I was starting to run out of decent imaging time I just used the basic default settings in Maxim DL which seems to have worked reasonably well. I only managed Ha and did 12x10 minutes, no callibration has been done at all so no darks, no flats and no bias frames. It was taken with the Takahashi BRC-250 and Starlight Xpress H9, seeing was average. I took an image of this subject unguided with the H36 and TMB last summer, this can be seen for comparison on my website Imaging The Heavens - Home Page

Thanks for looking

Best wishes

Gordon