Very nice, Don! I agree with you entirely: for best results we need to set up and work the bugs out one night, then image like crazy the next. I wish it had been possible to leave our gear up. I worked the public star party and also did private imaging, and that left me exhausted. I'm just now recovering. But it sure was fun. -- Joe ________________________________ From: Don J. Colton <djcolton@piol.com> To: 'Utah Astronomy' <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Rainbow Point ALCON Images I wish I would have had the energy to do two nights imaging at Rainbow Point since usually the first night I work out the bugs. However, after staying up all night Thursday, I didn't have the strength to do a second night. I had a lot of trouble getting good tracking in the main scope and traced the problem when I tore down in the morning to the lock screws on the guide scope not being tightened sufficiently. I ended up with only two useable images with M 27 being only a single LRGB set culled from numerous images. For 891 See: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4430&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 For M 27 See: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4433&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 For best results it helps to be able to set up for more than one night at a time. Clear Skies, Don _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php