After receiving it last year I mounted it up and began the process of fine tuning the alignment so I wouldn't have to align every time. I had just achieved that, programmed the PEC, etc. when there was some electrical failure and the DEC motor stopped working. I had to ship it back to Meade and it took them five months to return it. That's five months out of my warranty. Sheeesh!
The camera is a StarLight XPress HX-35 full frame monochrome camera with a 5 position filter wheel mounting red, green, blue, lumiance, and an opaque to act as a shutter. No problems with the camera.
Monday night, after months of clouds and rain we had a good clear night and I managed to rough align the scope. PEC is still unprogrammed and the alignment is not fine tuned but I grabbed a 2 minute exposure of M42 with just the lumiance filter. Just wanted to share the results.
So there's the first light image, second time around.
More later.
