First light with the QHY8 CCD.

Taken at the ASKC Dark Sky Site under marginal conditions - poor seeing and gusty winds. Polar alignment of the CGE mount was done using the built-in Polar Align routine and yielded alignment accurate enough for these 8-minute exposures with only a little bit of field rotation visible at the edges of the frame.

QHY8 Cooled CCD
9 x 8 min lights, bias, flats ** NO DARK FRAMES!! **
William Optics Megrez 90 / 0.8x Focal Reducer/Flattener III
CGE Mount / Guided by C-11 @ f/3.3 / DSI Pro / PHD
Captured with Nebulosity v2
DeepSky Stacker / Photoshop CS2 / Carboni's Actions