Small little update.
Finally last night, I had some clear dark skies.
Well sort of.  It was November the 5th!  Bonfire/Firework night in the uk.
This meant, flashes, bangs and smoke...
So no deep space imaging, unless I wanted a random rocket or puff of smoke drifting into the shot.

It was also quite a damp night too, so the dew on the scope was horrible!

I had a play with the NEQ6 for the 1st time though and managed to get the hang of setting it up and using the goto system, with some software called Stellarium helping me too.

Its the 1st time I managed to use the new DGM Optics NPB filter.  Not that there was anything to look at or shoot though.

So, just had a little play, nothing serious.

Managed some weak shots, totally un processed just trying out things.

Ring Nebula:

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                                                (The faint ring is just visible in the middle)

Hercules Cluster:

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                                (Out of focus and wrong filter... I'll get a good one next time!)

The Moon:

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                              (I wondered what the moon would look like with a Nebula Filter)