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Date/Location May 6, 2010 Wildwood Pines Observatory, Earl, NC
Camera and Settings SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD Camera -10°C
Telescope Orion 190 mm Maksutov-Newtonian f/5.3
Mount Parallax HD150
Exposure 120 min (12 x10 min)
Processing Image Plus 3.0, Photoshop
Other Spiral galaxy in constellation Virgo; mag. 10.4, size 9.1 x 1.4 arcmin. Bright foreground star on top edge of galaxy is TYC 0289-1220-1 mag. 10.9
NGC4517
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