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Date/Location March 20, 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 Celestron CGEM II
Exposure 130 min (13 x10 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6
Other Constellation Virgo; Elliptical galaxy M49 - mag. 8.3, size 10.2 x 8.3 arcmin; Spiral galaxy NGC4535- mag. 9.9, size 8.1 x 7.4 arcmin; Spiral galaxy NGC4626 - mag. 9.6, size 6.9 x 2.5 arcmin, + many fainter galaxies.
M49 Galaxy Group
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