NGC 6960 / 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). 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. Examined guide errors using phdlogview and these showed an odd pattern with the initial guiding session showing good polar alignment error (0.5') but all subsequent guiding sessions showed an alignment error of 7'+. This was reflected in the DEC errors (all sitting above the zero line). Total RMS errors were reasonable at ~1.5". Ekos Analyz...