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Target: NGC3532 Wishing Well Cluster
Camera: Canon 350d modified Baader 2” Skyglow filter
Exposure Capture: DLSR Focus
Scope: Orion 80 ED
Mount: EQ6 Pro
Exposure Setting: Prime focus, ISO800 ICNR off Daylight WB
Exposures: 10 x 330s total 55m taken 03/04/09 between 7:30pm and 8:30pm
Seeing: Average, waxing gibbous moon 65%
Guiding: Orion Starshoot Autoguider using PHD
Focus: DSLR Focus
Stacking: DSS 3darks, 1flats, no bias applied stacking time 15-20 minutes
Processing: PS CS3, PS7, Maxim Dl, Neat Image, NC Actions applied


IMO open clusters are the hardest to process and obtain an appealing result without adding diffraction spikes, any help here with a step by step guide would be appreciated


Info: Situated in the Carina

Right Ascension 11 : 06.4 (h:m) Declination -58 : 40 (deg:m) Distance 1.3 (kly) Visual Brightness 3.0 (mag) Apparent Dimension 55 (arc min)
Discovered by Lacaille 1752. The considerable southern open cluster NGC 3532 is one of the Southern Sky's finest Jewels. NGC 3532 was discovered by Abbe Lacaille on January 25, 1752 from South Africa, and cataloged as Lacaille II.7.
NGC 3532 got it's nickname "The Wishing Well Cluster" because the twinkling stars in this Open Cluster resemble silver coins shimmering at the bottom of a Wishing Well.