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Date/Location March 7, 2021 Jubilee College State Park, Illinois
Camera and Settings SBIG STF-8300C CCD camera -20°C
Telescope Askar 72mm f.5.6 Qunituplet Apo with a 0.7x focal reducer to yield f/3.9
Mount Celesctron CGEM II
Exposure 100 min (10 x10 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6
Other Spiral galaxy in constellation Coma Berenices; mag. 9.31, size 6.0 x 5.5 arcmin. Galaxies brighter than magnitude 14 labeled in the image.
M101
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