Beautiful night!

Reggy wrote: Roll on the darkness

Dave Grennan gave me alone of his 16” Dobson for a few weeks I’ll bring it to roundwood. So when the scopes are doing their thing we’ll have a look around the sky.

Praying for clear skies, should be a great night will see
if I can get the Boss to make some chocolate muffins for
snacks....... ;o}

Reggy wrote: Praying for clear skies, should be a great night will see
if I can get the Boss to make some chocolate muffins for
snacks....... ;o}

nice me like muffins :pinch:

Have a read through this it’s for polar aligning your mount www.celestron.com/c3/support3/index.php?...cle&kbarticleid=2494 Sounds pretty simple give it a go the next time you’re out with the mount.

Reggy I was just thinking M81-82 will be a great target for the night. They are perfect for your FOV what do you think?

It would be amazing if we could get something like that Carl, it'll give me a really good idea of how the camera performs colour wise on the deep sky stuff. Can't wait, praying for clear skies but not much we can do on that score .

Just back from having a few nice Easter pints with the wife and kids :>)). I’ve never imaged with a 90D before not even sure how to use them to be honest. That’s where you come in Reggy :>)); performance wise you should have nothing to worry about. It’s just your shutter on the 90D is not designed to stay open for 3 to 8 minutes of exposure time therefore hot pixels ‘become a real problem, we’ll leave plenty of time to get lots of darks frames.
PS,
Forgot to ask do you have a cable release for your 90D? Can we set the exposure times through a laptop? The less we have to go near the imaging station the better.

Carl.