A clear Moonless night last night, so I fired up the Hyperstar. After focusing and running CCDCalc I found I had perfect collimation! I’m not arguing – I just went straight to the best looking bit of sky to give me at least a couple of hours of imaging and got on with it. This is in the M105 region and the central star is SAO 99280. Yes I know I was an idiot and if I’d bother to look at the planetarium program and frame it better I would have got M95 and M96 as well – but you can’t have everything. This image comprises 19 subs at 200-seconds per sub on the Hyperstar4 with UV/IR cut filter and ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS camera running at -5C. It has been MONTHS since I last got an image so I am more than pleased that the kit behaved itself last night.
