Last week during a rare clearish night I put the primary mirror and its cell back in the 10", and did a rough collimation with my home-made Cheshire eyepiece and then did a basic star donut collimation. All seemed good, but the seeing wasn't fantastic, about III.
I waited up until 3.30am (BST) when Jupiter had cleared the tree in my neighbour's garden behind the obs (it's dying, slowly ;-). At 266x you could easily see the missing SEB, the GRS just coming into view and some detail in the cloud belts.
This is a picture made from video I took, processed in Registax. Camera is a Toucam Pro 740k, and I used my x2 Meade Barlow. Not the best image in the world, I'm sure I can tweak the collimation better than how it is now. Been reading Thierry Legault's great website article about collimation so I'm clear that I definitely need to work harder at getting that right to get the best out of my system.
Waiting for the next free clear night!
