NGC6280 (Open Cluster) taken at Rothe Valley 15 Sept 2012

[RobertM]

That's a really excellent result Duncan, you must be well pleased with that.  These SW mounts seem to respond well to a bit of TLC don't they !

Robert

[Jim]

I think there may be some sort of overflow problem in IRIS with the message TOO MANY STARS. I tried Roberts IC1848 and it also came out with about 7000 stars. I found DSS has a star count function and counts 5096 for Duncans NGC6280 and 12277 for Roberts IC1848. Seems more accurate?