Hi, Murphy sat down by my side the other night. I had traveled to a dark site at the South Fork of Chalk Creek and set up. I soon found that I had a short in my long exposure cable and the Ascom driver for my Temma 2 mount had vanished into that far off place where lost cyber-stuff goes. I was not able to autoguide but I did manage to splice the exposure cable by flashlight. I aimed the scope at M8 and shot 100 second exposures at ISO 1600 with my Takahashi FSQ 106 N. On the 15th light sub the clouds rolled in. Here is my photo, captured with: Canon T3i Modified by Hutech 14X100" exposures Calibrated with darks, flats and bias in Images Plus. Process using LRGB as per Rosen and Unsold. No guiding. Takahahsi Temma 2 mount. Steve Gallenson http://home.comcast.net/~galico/M8Web1.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~galico/M8Web2.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~galico/M8Web3.jpg