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Date/Location June 4, 2011 KEASA Observatory, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii
Camera and Settings SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD Camera -10°C
Telescope Stellarvue SV70 70 mm achromatic refractor f/6
Mount Orion Atlas
Exposure 4 min (2 x 2 min) through a 12 nm bandpass hydrogen beta filter
Processing Image Plus 3.0, Photoshop
Other Open star cluster in the constellation Cancer. 1.2° in size.
M44 The Beehive Cluster
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