With the now-much-faster plate solving software, the first target of the night (Eastern Veil Nebula) was slewed to and centered, and autoguiding activated, before the camera even finished cooling down to -15C. 😀 My Surface 3 tablet was charging just fine this time, so Monday night's battery drain must have just been a fluke. I was hands-off the system by 9 PM! So glorious.
It ran smoothly and parked itself around 5:15 AM, when the waning moon was roughly 20 degrees high. Even the passing clouds managed to stay away from where it was pointing.
The timelapse went well too -- check it out!
If you watch closely, you can see the streaks of the raccoons and squirrels running across my fence 😮
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