2nd Try!

I made another attempt on Saturday night (brrrr it was a cold one here in Madison, Al). It's a little better than my first one. Still have the focusing problems but I'm getting a 5" monitor to use for focusing using the camera's video output. I hope that will help. This picture was made from about 20 stacked images in Astrostack. Only about 5 of the images were good, the rest I rated average to poor.

6" F7.2 dob
18mm Radian, 2x Celestron shorty barlow
Sony DSC-S85 3x optical zoom on full
A little unsharp masking

John

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Very nice John!

I see you're getting better at this already!
Maybe if you got some more "good" images you could stack, you would get even better results...

Keep up the good job!

Clear skies!

Ivan