The forecast was a nice one, but then it was covered and it even snows.
After the snow, we had some clear skies but the near full moon was hanging high.
So it means a good time for collimation. You cannot do much deep sky imaging like this, and the snow reflects moon light making a very bright clear skies.
Before collimation, I pulled out a new toy for my daughter. An afocal adapter for simply imaing, the result is not bad.
I then do collimation with her using this adapter. She recentres the target star for me after I did minor adjustments, and she judges whether it's good or not with me. A very nice experience. The new hand knobs are very good, even in cold weather.
The S30 was struggling to get some more photons.
I would say the SCT now is in good collimation and I will start using it again. If the weather cooperates tonight, I might be doing some planet imaging.
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