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Date/Location December 18 & 22, 2017 KEASA Observatory, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii
Camera and Settings SBIG STF-8300C CCD camera -10°C
Telescope Stellarvue SV70T 70mm f/6 apochromatic refractor (with a 0.8x focal reducer/field flattener yielding f/4.8)
Mount Paramount MyT
Exposure 130 min (13 x 10 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6
Other Mag. 7 galaxy and mag. 8 globular cluster is the constellation Sculptor. Galaxy is 26.9 x 4.6 arc min.
NGC253 & NGC288
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