Fall season – colder nights but dark earlier. I got to Binbrook just after 8:00pm on Thursday and the gate was already opened – Glenn and Gail had arrived ahead of me. With their DOBs they were set up and observing about 1/2hr before I was finished aligning. DOBs certainly have that advantage going for them – but I’m a Photographer, and in the end the extra setup time of the EQ GT mount is well worth it. I concentrated mainly on the Lagoon Nebula (M8) – all the images were shot with a Digital Rebel XTi mounted on a Celestron 8″ SCT GT at ISO 1600 – 36 minutes total exposure (2 x 8min, 2 x 4min, 6 x 2min) – stacked and processed. Before leaving I snapped off a few shots of the Trifid Nebula but didn’t spend much time as it was getting too low to the horizon – total exposure time was only 10 minutes.