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Date/Location March 27, 2016 KEASA Observatory, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii
Camera and Settings Wide field: SBIG STF-8300C, Narrow field: SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD camera -10°C
Telescope Wide field: WO 71mm f/4.9 APO, Narrow field: 10" f/6 Newtonian with Paracorr Type 2 Coma Corrector
Mount Paramount ME
Exposure Wide field: 50 min (5 x 10 min), Narrow field: 100 min (10 x 10 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 5.75, Photoshop CS5
Other NGC3077 (smaller galaxy southeast of M81 in wide field image) mag. 9.8 spiral galaxy in Ursa Major 5.1 by 4.3 arcmin in size.
NGC3077
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