Last night was my first out with the reassembled scope. I’m a little concerned with some haziness around bright stars, like I didn’t do a good job cleaning the optics, or the grease I added to the focus mechanism is off-gassing and creating a film on them. There was similar haziness with binocs, so maybe it was just moisture in the air.
I wanted to shoot the Crab nebula, but it took me a while to find (I’d never seen it before). Figuring it would take a while to image it, I decided on a simpler task. The Orion Nebula is an easy target, and I didn’t take a lot of care with it, but it’s still beautiful.
Scott's Sky Shots 