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Imaging Equipment:

• Telescope: Celestron C11 at f/6.5
• Zeiss II German Equatorial Mount
• Santa Barbara Instrument Group ST-8E NABG CCD camera (1530 x 1020 pixels, 9 x 9mm, monochromatic, 16 bit, 13.8 x 9.2mm array)
• CWF8 color filter wheel with IR-blocking clear, red, green and blue dichroic filters

• Date: Friday July 5, 2002
• Location: Mt. Pinos, CA
• Elevation: 8300', OAT +50F
• Composition: RGB
• R:G:B = 50:50:60 minutes. Total exposure time: 160 minutes
• All subexposures were 5 minutes each
• Raw FWHM: 3.1 arc seconds
• Plate scale: 1.02 arc-sec/pixel

• Distance from earth: about 25,000 light years
• Number of stars: about 1 million
• Total luminosity: about 300,000 Suns
• Total mass: about 500,000 Suns

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