Nice clear night, a little on the cool side for this time of year with the temperatures in the low 60s. A 29% waxing crescent Moon was setting. First time in a couple months I have had the SV503 102ED out, I packed it up just before we went on vacation in July and have just not had time or a good clear sky opportunity since. Set the scope up, checked everything out, balanced it, and waited for dark. I did not really have a plan for this session, other than checking in on T CrB to see if there was any change in magnitude. Ended up getting a couple of hours of light from NGC 7635 which I think turned out pretty nice.

Primary (Imaging)	Secondary (Guiding)
Scope: SVBONY SV503 102ED Reducer/Flattener: 0.8 Focal Reducer/Flattener (~570mm – F/5.6) Filter: None Camera: ZWO ASI294 MC Pro, Cooled to -10 C Focuser: ZWO EAF Mount: Sky Watcher EQ6-R Pro	Scope: SVBONY SV106 60mm Guide Scope Camera: Orion Star Shooter Autoguider (OSSAG)
Telescope Control, Image Acquisition, and Image Processing Software
Equipment Control and Imaging Software: NINA/PHD2/ASCOM on a Mini-PC Processing Software: GraXpert, Siril astronomical image processing tool, Siril’s Interactive Companion (Sirilic)

Once it was dark enough I checked focus and ran the Three Point Polar Alignment. Took a minute to get the alignment dialed in. Ran the Auto Focus again and the steps were set at 10112. Just before astronomical dark I started the NINA sequence and the scope moved to the first target.

The first target in my sequence was T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), the Blaze Star, the recurrent nova in the constellation of Corona Borealis. This is 15 x 120 second exposures stacked with Sirilic. Processed in GraXpert and Siril.

I still need to analyze the magnitude with AstroImageJ and ASTAP, but T CrB does not appear to have increased in magnitude any since the June. I’ll try to do the magnitude measurements later today. Going to keep an eye on it.

After getting 30 minutes of data from T CrB the scope moved to NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, an emission nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia. This is 40 x 180 second exposures stacked with Sirilic. Then cropped, background extracted, and denoised using GraXpert. Stretching and processing with Siril. The open star cluster in the upper right of the FOV is Messier 52.

I used this Star Reduction script to reduce the number of stars in the background. Even after the Star Reduction there is still a lot of stars. I think it turned out pretty nice.

Awhile back I installed the NINA LightBucket Plugin so my sessions are also logged to my LightBucket Page. First night I have been able to try it out. It logs and shares your NINA sessions. Pretty neat.

Going to adjust my park position so the scope parks with the objective lens down. Then I’ll probably try my luck with shooting through out the night. I covered the scope around 11:30 PM.

Was a very nice night to capture some light. Nice to have the 102 set up. Looks like we should have decent skies the next night or two, so looking forward to doing some more looking up.