M94 The Crocodiles Eye

[mackiedlm]

I'm a bit dissapoined with this one, I think my sky was just not clear enough so I had to work too hard to try to bring out the faint outer ring and it just does not feel right now - background seems dodgy!.

But anyway, This is the 8" LX 200 GPS, wedge, the SW 0.85 reducer and the ASI2600mc Gain 100 Bin 2x2. Came in at about 4 hours of 120s subs.

This is a very light crop, just for edges, so the stars are clearly improved over the Meade 0.63 reducer right out to the corners. Below is a quick crop of one corner with the LX200 and the 0.63 Meade 4000 reducer - same camera (its the corner cropped from my M51 posted earlier). So using the SW 0.85 reducer for the  80ED seems to work, if not perfectly then certainly better than the Meade 0.63. I think another mm in backfocus may help a little too.