Just a couple of images tonight, I had trouble with the mount moving east-west causing the stars to elongate. The fix is to take shorter exposures, so after trying some of the fainter objects I moved around to the brighter nebulae and Galaxies.
Click on the images for a slide-show.I started to the east of the meridian, taking M82 and M51 but then moved west and when I realized I hadn’e taken M34 before, I took the opporunity to get a few dozen frames at 10seconds each. M42 doesn’t need more than 5 seconds per frame but the short frames were too short to pick up M42’s neighbour “the running man”.I think this M51 is one of my best, if not the best, it’s a collection of hand-picked frames from over 100×30 seconds taken. When I get better stability on the mount I’ll see if I can do 100x60seconds – that should be awesome.