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Date/Location February 5, 2016 KEASA Observatory, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii
Camera and Settings SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD camera -10°C
Telescope Discovery 10" f/6 Newtonian Televue Paracorr II Coma Corrector
Mount Paramount ME
Exposure 90 min (9 x 10 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 5.75, Photoshop CS5
Other Open star cluster (mag. 7.5)with nebulosity. Planetary nebula Ns 238 (mag. 11.5) to the lower left of nebula.
NGC2579
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