Object Information:                      NGC 5247
                                                    Mag. -  10.87,
                                                    Constellation - Virgo,
                                                    Size - Unknown,
                                                    Distance - 66 million light years,

Imaged at:                                    Near Desert Center, Riverside County, California.
                                                    Elevation - 600 feet

Equipment:                                   Optics - Takahashi MT-160 6.25" classical Newtonian at f/6.3
                                                    Mount - Astro-Physics 900 GTO,
                                                    Camera - Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) ST-7E  NABG CCD,
                                                    Focal Reducer/Field Flattener - none,

Exposure Information:                  April 26, 2003,
                                                   Sum of 7 exposures of 6 minutes each.
                                                   High Resolution Mode (unbinned pixels),

Image Acquisition Software:       CCD Soft ver. 5,

Image Processing Steps:              Image calibration - AIP for WIndows.  Image registration and stacking - Mira 6.  Final processing - Adobe Photoshop 7.