Fought the wind and tranparency

Started out as a very foggy morning so I knew the transparency wasn't going to be so great, but I had the clearest sky I've seen in a long time.  Capturing 10,000 frames really helps to find enough good frames to stack.  Just couldn't get rid of the gradients in the first image.

New Focuser New Mount

Finally got the new focuser for the 80mm, and instantly modified it with some teflon mouse tape to shim and remove the focuser slop, it now turns as smooth as butter like a $150 dollar focuser.  Cloudy and windy, but the new mount is much more solid with the little scope so didn't have much for shaking issues.

Two attempts at AR2135

Rigged up the solar filter from the 80mm to work on the 114mm, and took a few videos.  Kinda crummy conditions today with the wind pushing the scope around and thin clouds passing by.  The first capture came out really noisy, but the second one at a faster framerate came out a little better.

Dual monitors

I finally got out to test my new Ioptron Cube Pro mount.  It definately tracks better than the old smartstar mount with just a lunar alignment and sync to target.  Had to dust off the old astromaster 114 for the night, and did a daytime artificial star collimation to get the optics lined up again.  And, of course I had to broadcast on NSN for an hour or so, just because its been so long since I had the chance.