I couldn't see either the galaxy or the planetary through the finderscope -a bashed in 80mm f5 Bresser- but the Synscan goto did me proud. Or was it my accurate polar alignment?! Anyway, I can see I'm gonna need longer exposures. Still...
deep sky pair in ursa major 8x30s @ iso 800 |
edge on galaxy m108 centre with m97 the owl nebula lower right
bresser 152 petzval on an unguided eq6