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Date/Location February 15, 2015 KEASA Observatory, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii
Camera and Settings SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD Camera -10°C
Telescope 8-inch f/8 Ritchey–Chrétien Cassegrain (with a Televue 0.8x focal reducer/field flattener yielding f/6.4)
Mount Paramount ME
Exposure 50 minutes (5 x 10 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Images Plus 5.75, Photoshop CS5
Other Magnitude 7.73 globular cluster; constellation Lepus; 8.3 arc minutes in size.
M79
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