Reflection Nebula NGC1333 in Perseus
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Imaging Equipment:
- Telescope:
Celestron C11, 11" f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain reduced to f/6.0
- 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 Ha and IR-blocking red, green and blue dichroic filters
Exposure Information:
- Date:
Saturday October 5, 2002
- Location:
Mt. Pinos, CA
- Elevation:
Approx. 8300', OAT +35F
- CCD
operating temperature: -27C
- L:R:G:B
= 150:60:60:70 minutes. Total exposure time: 340 minutes
- All
subexposures were 10 minutes each, unbinned
- Plate
scale: 1.1 arc-sec/pixel
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