Good evening HAL,

I hosted an impromptu Star party on Wednesday since the weather report showed we would have clear skies. I arrived at Alpha Ridge Park at 7:30 pm and 12 other members showed up.

Unfortunately the skies were a little cloudy during the first few hours but the weather was nice and most of us just wanted to be out and build our equipment.
The clouds dissipated around 9:30pm so we could enjoy some nice observations and imaging time.

I left the park by 2 am when I was too tired, but Wayne, who is also a key holder, stayed with James until 3:30pm.

I worked on 2 common targets for Galaxy season and even though I only collected around 2 hours and a half of data from each, I obtained great results.

I am leaving my final images of M51 and M81 & M82.

I also wanted to recommend to anyone who is new to pixinsight the book Pixinsight Workflows. A step by step guide to astrophotography image processing. It is available on Amazon.

It helped me understand some of the processes a little better and it was nice to have a book helping me through the process. I did both targets on my regular workflow and with the workflow in the book to compare and the results were much better with the workflow in the book. Highly recommend if you’re new to Pixinsight.

Jose Urias