Deerlick first light (Scott Badger)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Pegasus (Peg) · Contains: NGC 7327 · NGC 7331 · NGC 7335 · NGC 7336 · NGC 7337 · NGC 7340

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First light with my new QHY268M. A big step from my un-modded DSLR, not just the camera itself, but new acquisition software, filter wheel, processing workflow…...is there ever a time when you’re not ascending several steep learning curves at the same time?!?.... Anyhow, it all actually came together quite smoothly (amazing really how the magic of ASCOM makes it all just work….until it doesn’t…) though still lots to learn about the settings, and might help if I took more flats than once in ten nights and three targets…

Can’t help feeling a bit of nostalgia as well, especially for those first nights out with my new first scope. At the time it was just the scope, my DSLR and an intervalometer…..no guide scope and guide camera, no PHD2, no image acquisition software, and no laptop with its graphs and RMS readouts….. Other than an occasional focus check, and maybe a drift correction once and a while if really feeling ambitious, nothing to do but stare at the stars overhead..... More recently, and more than once even, I’ve actually discovered that a clear night turned overcast because of a drop in my guide’s star’s SNR….and can’t even claim I was inside at the time, or even in a dome...nope, outside with the stars and gathering clouds directly over my oblivious head staring at a graph……

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