NGC 6050, et. al. (Hercules Galaxy Cluster)

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Date: April, 2011
Location: Elizabeth, CO. Mag 5.0 skies, alt ~6500 ft
Telescopes:

16" f/4.9 Newtonian, Pegasus Optics primary, with ASA 3" Keller/Wynne coma corrector/field flattener

6" f/6 Newtonian, Parks Optics (with 1.15x TV Universal Paracorr) operating at f/6.9

Mount: MI-500 w/ Astrophysics AP1200 GOTO computer control
Exposure Durations: 

Luminance: 300 mins using an STL-11000M on the 16"

Color: 120 mins using an ST-4000XCM on the 6", concurrently collected during luminance data collection

Seeing: ~2"
Comments: Processed using Maxim, Registar, CCDStack and Corel's PhotoPaint X4


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