PIER-05 Your help very much appreciated

Hi, 

I have seen posted some really excellent results from this pier. As someone who recently has been using pier 11, which also has a OSC camera, and being happy with the results I then decided to join the Syndicate.

One problem that did arise occasionally on pier 11 could be traced to the date and time the images were taken, relative to the time of full moon.

The closer it was to before or after the full moon had a bearing on the time period when the effect was more or less noticeable. The closer to the full moon it got then the number of hours when it possible to image shortened, until it was just not possible.

The moon avoidance settings in use are supposed to avoid as much as possible any interference from the moon. I'm wondering if anyone here has seen something similar on this pier. If you have already processed either of the 2 jobs mentioned below, I'd be very grateful if you would look back at what you have processed and let me know. 

The very first job from pier 5 I tried was just one hour of data and of the Elephant trunk region. Job 1631 is the one in question and the result I got is horrendous. Two opposite corners with huge colour gradients. My first reaction was that I got something wrong with the calibration. The subs on that job were however all captured on the 10th July, full moon on the 13th. 

I have since tried a second job, 1651 the Fireworks galaxy, which had subs taken over more than one night.. The Blink tool revealed many bad ones, probably light affected. I ditched all the subs taken on the night of June 11th through June 12th and only used those from June 8th and 19th. Full moon was the 14th.  I have just stacked these and done a colour correction to see if the results were better. There is a marked difference to the first one I processed with no immediately obvious gradients, so this is why I'd like to know if anyone else has experienced this. That is, data captured too close to the full moon is not usable.

Thanks,

The newbie