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Date/Location May 13, 2021 Jubilee College State Park, Illinois
Camera and Settings SBIG ST-4000XCM CCD camera
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 30 min (6 x 5 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6
Other Ghost of Jupiter - planetary nebula in the Constellation Hydra, mag. 7.3, 0.7 x 0.6 arcmin in size. Cropped enlarged image in upper right hand corner showing more detail.
NGC3242
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