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Date/Location October 10 & 16, 2020 Jubilee College State Park, Illinois
Camera and Settings SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD camera -20°C
Telescope William Optics 132mm f/7 Apo (with a Televue 0.8x focal reducer/field flattener yielding f/5.6)
Mount Paramount MyT
Exposure 160 min (16 x 10 min) + 110 min H-alpha (11 x 10min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6
Other Emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. 20 x 10 arcmin in size. Known as the Crescent Nebula.
NGC6888
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