Back to astronomy again. This is first light for the Meade DSI Pro II. I used the 80mm f5 refractor on an alt-azimuth mount to take seven two-second exposures. The best five were stacked in IRIS and logarithmically scaled. The final levels adjust and conversion to jpeg was done in Photoshop Elements. The refractor not apochromatic and the focusing was done by eye off the live preview of the CCD. I would have done longer exposures but the mount tracking was off for exposures longer than two seconds. Not bad results considering the circumstances.


The next goal is to piggy back the 80mm on the LX55 mount or the Celestron CGE and do some longer time exposures.