M101
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Imaging Equipment:
- Telescope:
Celestron C-11 at f/7.15
- Zeiss
II German Equatorial Mount
- Santa
Barbara Instrument Group ST-8E NABG CCD camera (1530 x 1020 pixels, 9 x 9mm, monochromatic, 16 bit, 13.8 x 9.2mm array)
- CWF8
color filter wheel with IR-blocking clear, red, green and blue dichroic filters
Exposure
Information:
- Date:
Friday, April 12, 2002
- Location:
Mt. Pinos, CA
- Elevation:
8300', OAT +40F
- Composition:
LRGB
- L:R:G:B
= 160:40:40:60 minutes. Total exposure time: 300 minutes
- All
subexposures were 10 minutes each
- Raw
FWHM: 4.0 arc seconds
- Plate
scale: 0.93 arc-sec/pixel
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