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Date/Location Julne 29 & July 10, 2020 Jubilee College State Park, Illinois
Camera and Settings SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD camera -10°C
Telescope 8-inch f/8 Ritchey–Chrétien Cassegrain (with a Televue 0.8x focal reducer/field flattener yielding f/6.4)
Mount Paramount MyT
Exposure 240 min (24 x 10 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6
Other Mag. 10.2 spiral galaxy in Draco. 5.9 x 1.9 arc minutes in size. Bright red giant star is SAO 8937, mag 8.6.
NGC6503
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