NGC 6960 / NGC 6992 / NGC 1499 / M 33
08/30/2025 - No clouds...some moon early. Set up the Ekos scheduler for NGC 6960 with dual narrow band filter in place with M 33 scheduled for near the end of the evening (0400) when there's no moon (using the UV / IR filter only). Utilizing the venerable Meade LX10 SCT with the Starizona SCT Corrector III, Svbony SV405cc cooled camera, the Xagyl 1.25" 8-slot filter wheel, the Meade zero-shift focuser on the Celestron CGEM DX mount. Guiding through the 5x90 RACI guide scope using the Zwo ASI120MC-S camera with built-in ST-4 guide port cable running to the mount . Double checked polar alignment and tested the internal guider in Ekos and set Ekos up to to use this instead of phd2 (which has a habit of dropping the Indi guide camera...thus ending the imaging session prematurely). In the morning noted 100x NGC 6960 light frames had been collected. Only a few M 33 frames were collected until Ekos shut down the system due to the end of astronomic night time. Exam...