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M25

M25

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Instrument: Meade 178ED 7" Apochromatic Refractor Telescope
Focal Ratio: f9 (prime focus)
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera
(See product review in July, 2004 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.)
with Astrodon Tru-Balance color filters.
Exposure: 14 x 1 minutes Luminance unbinned
4 x 1 minutes each R/G/B, all unbinned
Guiding: Off-Axis with STV Autoguider (Santa Barbara Instrument Group)
(See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Date: 7/03/05
Post Processing: CCDSoft, CCDSharp, MaxIM DL, Photoshop CS

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