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• Telescope: Takahashi FS-152 f/8 fluorite refractor at f/6.
• 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 red, green and blue dichroic filters

• Date: Friday June 22, 2001
• Location: Mt. Pinos, CA
• Elevation: Approx. 8300', OAT +44F
• Composition: RGB (25:25:70 minutes). 60 minutes of Ha exposures were taken but were not used in the final composition.
• All exposures were 5 minutes each.

• North is to the right.
• This object lies 1.5 degrees east of the Lagoon Nebula, M8.
• The compact red feature at the left edge of the image is the magnitude 16.0 planetary nebula PK 6-2.1.

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