My first chance to get out of the city and into the country (Bortle 6/7 skies) with the new smart telescope was Feb 15th, 2026.   My first target was Comet C/2024 E3 (Wierzchos).  I managed to get 50 frames of 20 sec each, even though the comet was very low to the horizon in the southwest.   I generated a star-freeze and star-streaks set of images with that data.  Those are below:

Next,  I switched out of comet imaging mode and into Deep Sky mode.   I picked the Horse Head Nebula as my next target and let it run for 30 minutes.  It did fairly well, as you can see:

For the next step in my testing of this new scope, I switched to the wide-angle lens and took some images of a large swath of sky.  It was my first time using this camera.   I left the scope pointing where it was (the Horse Head) and did another 30 minute run:

Not too bad of a night for Bortle 5/7 skies and it being a short imaging session before a work day.