My sincere thanks goes to Rupert Smith of Astrograph.net for his help in designing and having a pier plate manufactured for my Avalon M-Uno mount. This pier plate will finally allow me to set up my mount on the pier at e-EyE​. The following is a photograph of it assembled:

​I have recently been imaging the M101 Pinwheel Galaxy in Hydrogen-Alpha, with a 3nm filter. Since this is going to be a serious image with tons of exposure time, I decided to do 50 exposures of 15 minutes each at 1x1. The result of stacking all these exposures together has a very, very clear effect on the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the overall result. The following is a GIF animation showing the result of stacking exposures from 5 to 50 in steps of 5​ (click the animated GIF to see a larger version):