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IC417

IC417

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Instrument: Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope
Focal Ratio: f7.2 (prime focus)
Film: Kodak E200 (Pro) 35mm Slide Film (unhypered)
Exposure: 120 minutes
Camera: Nikon F4 (with DW21 6x finder and type M focusing screen)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Custom camera/guider/telescope adapters made by PreciseParts.
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: 3/20/04
Post Processing: Photographic Grain smoothed with Alex Mellinger's bgsmooth program.

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