Imaging telescopes or lenses: Vixen ED80SF
Imaging cameras: Canon 550D
Mounts: CELESTRON CG5-GT
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Vixen Finderscope 9x50
Guiding cameras: Orion StarShoot AutoGuider
Focal reducers: Orion Field Flattener for Short Refractors
Software: PixInsight · PHD Guiding · Binary Rivers Backyard EOS
Astrometry.net job: 83795
RA center: 2h 20' 10"
DEC center: +57° 12' 57"
Pixel scale: 2.573 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -177.158 degrees
Field radius: 1.288 degrees
Resolution: 620x413
Data acquired on 2013-09-28
The double cluster, Caldwell 14, containing NGC 884 and NGC 869, located in Perseus. Both clusters are approximately 7500 light years from earth. (source: Wikipedia)
Image details:
9x5m ISO800 sub exposures
Calibrated with dark, flat, and bias frames
Equipment:
Vixen ED80sf 80mm APO refractor
Celestron CG-5 ASGT mount
Orion SSAG autoguider + 50mm guide scope
Canon T2i 550D DSLR (Baader IR modded by Gary Honis)
Orion Field Flattener
Software:
Image acquisition with BackyardEOS
Guiding with PhD
Calibration / alignment / integration and post-processing with PixInsight
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