M27
Last night’s weather was “iffy.” The humidity was high, seeing was little below average, but it was a comfortable 68 degrees. I tried using Maxim DL for the first time. I was able to get the DSLR and the guide cam to work, but guiding using this program was still confusing to me. I decided to figure out and learn the program another night. Back to running PHD. This was the second night out using the guiding program. The process was a lot easier to use the second time. I did run into some computer errors, mostly due to forgetting 
to shut down the power shut down mode on my laptop. I finally was able to get some longer exposures. Started with 5min exposures, and the longest for tonight was 8min. I am sure that I could have gotten more than 10min, which I am really impressed about. Here is the shot of M27 that I did. I used 4 shots at 5min each, 1 at 8min, and 1 at 2min. I did 3 sets of 5min, 1 8min, and 1 2min darks. No bias shots, because I forgot about them. I stacked the imaged in DSS and did the post processing in Photoshop CS4 using Carboni’s Astronomy Tools Actions Set.