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Date/Location May 8, 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 50 min (5 x 10 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6
Other Magnitude 9.2 globular star cluster in the Constellation Ophiuchus 15.2 arcmin in diameter. The bright star is SAO 141665 magnitude 4.5.
NGC6366
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