M94 - mount error, lack of luminance (Simon)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: IC 3795 · IC 3808 · M 94 · NGC 4736

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M94 - mount error, lack of luminance

I finally got round to imaging this amazing galaxy, with a lot of hope and expectation to bring forth that outer galactic ring. I swapped over the camera, and left it running for luminance, as I crawled my way to bed... but alas a dodgy plug-socket, caused the electric to stop reaching the mount, and it shut it off only after an hour's worth of luminance, and there I was hoping to get about 5! How annoying! The Neq pro6 mounts are notorious for the weak centre pin sockets, which is why later models have a decent screw version, and occasionally the connection breaks and lo and behold... I have since fixed it, he says... Anyway, it was a real battle to process this, because to get that ring to retally pull through, takes far more integration time than I achieved. The moon is now too bright to return to this object, although I hope to image the planetary nebula NGC 6210 tonight, using a reducer on my f12 Cassegrain - not sure about that, but it will pull things down to a more manageable f8. We will see. Anyway, 46 RGBs and 64 luminances, each at 1 minute long! This equates to an imaging time of 1 hour and 50 minutes. Good nigth everybody...

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RA (center)	12h50m02s.57
RA (top/left)	12h48m20s.43
RA (top/right)	12h47m33s.81
RA (bottom/right)	12h51m42s.79
RA (bottom/left)	12h52m33s.60

Dec (center)	+40°55′06″.0
Dec (top/left)	+41°33′25″.4
Dec (top/right)	+40°22′49″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+40°16′40″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°27′10″.0

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