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Date/Location March 4 & 7, 2021 Jubilee College State Park, Illinois
Camera and Settings SBIG ST-4000XCM CCD camera -20°C
Telescope William Optics 132mm f/7 refractor (with a Televue 0.8x focal reducer/field flattener yielding f/5.6)
Mount Paramount MyT
Exposure 290 min (29 x 10 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6
Other Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula in constellation Monoceros. Cluster mag. 4.09, size 60 x 30 arc minutes. Greater nebula much larger.
NGC2264
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