One of the fist images taken while completing integration and testing of my balcony observatory, in a fully automated mode. CCDCommander used to unpark the mount, acquire and focus reference star, plate solve to correct pointing, next - execute 3 x action set (slew to nearby focus star, refocus, slew back to M1, take test image, plate solve and correct pointing, take 6 x 10min in Ha).

In total I took 16 x 10min in Ha - had to discard last 2 images as the objects slowly went behind the roof.

Over the night, the same automated imaging mode has been used to acquire 3 more targets (each around 2-3 hours), finishing with M13 (an early summer object!) at 5:30 just before dawn.

Relatively bright sky with Moon between full and 3rd quarter and slight ground fog. Cold - down to -23C in the morning.

I still did not get proper backfocus for Teleskop-Service 2,5" flattener - the TS OAG-27 unit, advertised as having 27mm backfocus, in reality has 34mm so places the chip some 7mm behind it should be. To be corrected before the next session. In this case, the 780mm AP130 was working @ f/6.5 ca 850mm. Some minor radial star elongation can be seen in extreme corners.

The image is almost full frame reduced to 50%, minimally cropped.