Date/Location |
August 15 & 16, 2020 Jubilee College State Park, Illinois |
Camera and Settings |
SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD camera -20°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 |
220 min (22 x 10 min) |
Processing |
CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6 |
Other |
Magnitude 9.0 galaxy in Cygnus, 11.5 x 11.0 arcminutes in size. Sometimes called the Fireworks Galaxy. |
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