This is a shot I took while I was aligning. It's a very familiar star in the southern hemisphere, one of the brightest of the two pointers towards the southern cross. Those two stars are smack bang in the middle of the mikyway lane just after the coalsack or the emu head, whichever way you look at it.
There are a couple of blue clusters around and a multitude or multicolor stars embedded in the golden starry background. This was approx. 10x2min while I was aligning and calibrating guiding.
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Beautiful part of the sky.
