Up and out before 04:00 edt this morning.
Realigned the finder scope to the main optics. Tried using polaris and moving the scope in N/S Dec moved the star, moving it in E/W RA did not.
Used Vega. everything nicely lined up.. told the mount to go to Saturn. It almost got there. I could not understand what was up… looked at the mount.. cable snag!
Try to improve something and universal entropy bites you in the *ss.
In any event, 17 imaging runs of Saturn of 180 seconds each, with exposures at 11 or 12 ms.
Altitude is getting really nice… 48 degrees! only 1.33 airmasses to look through and atmospheric distortion is starting to minimize. This was the best 5% of 15K frames using an ROI of 800×800 and a further cutout box of 600×500. Seeing was average 5/10 and transparency was average 5/10.
I’ve started adding that info into the filename as well.