The wind and cold awaited us for olur first night but while the dedicated Deep Space guys couldn't steady their auto-guided astrophotgraphy rigs, despite clear skies, the visual observers hung onto their telescopes to get graet views of Comet Swan, Messier 22 Globular Cluster and even though close as grazing the southern horizon, Eta Carina Nebula, NGC 3372 which looked great in the now luckily fully assembled twelve inch Meade Lightbridge. With the aid of a Argo Navis telescope computer and wifi connection to the Sky Safari Samrt Phone App I was able to push the telscope to the exact point in the sky to view the comet.
Evening Friday Night 17th October 2025
The Meade Lightbridge telescope looking south with some sub-auroral glow which wsa only visable to the camera.
The Emu (Milky Way) at midnight on it's back and setting to the southwest.
Deep Space (somewhere in the sky near Scorpius/Sagittarius) 50 x 15 second frames with a Dwarflab 2 Camera.
With some help from Siril and Pixinsight.
Original stack from the Camera itself
