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| Date: | January, 2013 |
| Location: | Elizabeth, CO. Mag 5.5 skies, alt ~6500 ft |
| Telescopes: |
Luminance: 16" f/4.9 Newtonian, Pegasus Optics primary plus 3" ASA coma corrector/field flatenner Color: 8" f/3.7 Newtonian, GSO 8" f/5 primary plus 0.73x ASA reducer/coma corrector/field flattener |
| Mount: | MI-500 w/ Astrophysics AP1200 GOTO computer control. 8" scope piggy-back mounted on 16" scope |
| Imagers: |
Luminance: STL-11000M used on 16" Color: ST-4000XCM used on 8" |
| Exposure Duration: |
Luminance = 240 mins (4 hrs, 16 x 15 min subs) Color = 240 mins (4 hrs, 16 x 15 min subs), concurrently collected during luminance collection |
| Seeing: | ~2.5" |
| Comments: | Processed using Maxim, Registar, CCDStack and Corel's PhotoPaint X4. M106 is the large spiral galaxy at the lower left, NGC 4217 is the smaller edge-on spiral galaxy at the upper right |
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