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Date/Location May 11, 2021 Jubilee College State Park, Illinois
Camera and Settings SBIG ST-4000XCM CCD camera
Telescope 8-inch f/8 Ritchey–Chrétien Cassegrain (with a Televue 0.8x focal reducer/field flattener yielding f/6.4)
Mount Paramount MyT
Exposure 30 min (3 x 10 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6
Other Magnitude 9.4 globular star cluster; Constellation Hercules; 5.4 arcminutes in size.
NGC6229
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