The moon last evening, 4 days old, 18% illuminated.
This was the 13th imaging session of the year for me and after a kit if basic mechanics/processes, I managed to get this before the clouds came in.
The evening started off with mosquitos but no black flies.. a bonus! kind of!
I used the GPS plugin to the mount this time to get the correct date time and location? as opposed to using atomic clock app to type it in. Always a chance for typos in the transcription of even such simple data.
The night previous to this had a 3 star alignment of the mount that did not quite work out, so I was curious if this would be different.
After the GPS was fixed, it was removed and the computer control cable attached. A three star align then happened, with Arcturus, Vega and Capella the star chosen by the system.
I used a 40mm eyepiece to center the start then replaced it with the camera, a x2 barlow and a software reticle to center it exactly.
After the 3rd star, it was a success.
To test this I then told the mount to go back to Arcturus and there it was, in the FOV but not centered. Then to Vega. There it also was, in the FOV but not centered. Lastly Capella. It was NOT there! bummer. Tell it to goto Capella again.. this time Capella came into the FOV.
What the Heck?
Then a goto Venus. not in the FOV. Grrrrr.
Found it, did a few images then off to the Moon.
Not in the FOV. GRRRRR.
Found it, removed the x2 barlow and did a few imaging runs.
The above it the best of the few runs, a best 5% with a 3ms exposure of about 4k frames.