+1 to what others said. I use the "ticks" only as a hint how far to move, but do the alignment ultimately with the "center a star" function. The final alignment I do with the Ha filter - which makes

David Thanks for the heads up - hopefully A1 Leonard will continue to brighten over the next month! Here's SkyMap's plot of it on 11/23 to 11/24 (times are MST): Clear

David, My program is showing it being between them on the morning of the 24th but going away from being between them by the 25th. On my picture below, the comet would be below and to the left of

Bernard, My method, which probably isn’t standard, is to just move it – I think the manual will say tics = x amount of turn. At that point, I wipe the model and run a short one – again, I

Bernard, You can do an “Accurate Polar Alignment” routine inside TPoint Add-on, which asks you to slew to a suitable star; the mount will offset based on your PA error, and you just need to

Hi, I need to polar align my Paramount ME tomorrow when I am at DSNM. The T-Point polar alignment tells me I have to rotate west 6.4 clicks. I have an older ME mount that does not have

Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard will cruise between the Whale (NGC 4631) and Crowbar (NGC 4656) Galaxies the morning of 24 November. The tail might split them on 25 November (Thanksgiving morning). This

Nice color Dan. It has a vague resemblance to the Trifid. Bernard

Beautiful Dan. Nice detail int eh dust lanes. I will have to put this one on my list. Bernard

Arp 259 (NGC 1741) appears to be in the center of a train wreck. Part of Arp’s ‘Galaxies (not classifiable as S or E) - Irregular clumps’ class, it is located approximately 186 million

Dan, Those dust lanes look like blood vessels! I like the color balance. Brian

NGC 2146 (UGC 3429, PGC 18797, VV 1156 and many others) is a starburst galaxy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starburst_galaxy) located approximately 87 million light-years away in Camelopardalis.

Nice...you captured a lot of the background nebulosity. Thanks for sharing. Clear skies,GreggVisit my astronomy & astrophotography sitehttp://www.greggsastronomy.com/ On 10/23/2021 11:50

Sharpless 301 (Bran 6 and 7, Ced 93, Gum 5, LBN 1044, RCW 6 and others) is a HII region located approximately 18,917 light-years away in Canis Major. Ha – 24x1800s – 720 minutes – binned

Hi all: Czernik 8 and King 4 are small open clusters on the Cassiopeia/Perseus

Great detail in the NB. Thanks for sharing. Gregg Visit my astronomy & astrophotography site www.greggsastronomy.com

Hi, This is an image of NGC 7538. It is an emission nebula about 9,100 light years away in the constellation Cepheus. It is an active star forming region with the largest known protostar measuring

Bernard, Really nice. This is the small one next to the bubble that is very bright if I remember right. Dan ---- Dan Crowson dcrowson@... Dardenne Prairie

Nicely processed, Bernard. Your colors match what I got in a wide field view a few years back: http://greggsastronomy.com/IMAGES/ngc7538-HaRGB.jpg Gregg Visit my astronomy & astrophotography

Gregg, I love your comet images. To think this is how Messier got started. Bernard