It's been 12 days since I received the DSI-II. The weather has been cloudy with showers with zero clear nights until last night. I wasn't convince the clear sky would hold so I only set up the scope on the terrace. For local observing I usually take the scope to a local elementary school parking lot/play ground. Trees block most of the view from the terrace. However one DSO the Sombrero galaxy was available.at 10PM. I detest daylight saving time.
Scope aligned I used Spica to get a rough focus. From Spica I jumped over to M104. A group of stars in the field to the left of M104 served as a fine focus. To my delightful surprise I could just make out the core of the Sombrero in 1 sec exposure preview mode. This is about as far as I got. I made the mistake of setting dark frames to 5 per average. By the time I got to imaging the Sombero it was moving behind one of those inconvenient trees.
Tonight it's back to crappy, overcast New England spring weather.
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