Caldwell 94 - NGC4755 - Jewel Box Cluster and Beta Crucis - 31/3/2013 (Processed cropped stack)

First test of TS-OAG9 with Off Axis Guiding active with Hotech SCA Field Flattener. Backfocus ~57mm instead of optimal 55mm.

DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 Stacked 85% of 8 Images ISO 800 120 Sec, 58 DARK, 75 BIAS, 0 FLATS, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5

Telescope - Apogee OrthoStar LOMO 80/480 with Hotech SCA Field Flattener, Hutech IDAS LPS-P2 filter, Canon 40D DSLR field 106' x 159' , Ambient 18C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS 2.09 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Teleskop Service OAG9 Off Axis Guider with Starlight Xpress Superstar (mono) CCD guide camera and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.

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