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| Sagittarius
Wide Field (M8, M20 and NGC 6559)
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| Location and Date | At the Oakridge Observatory, California 6/17/2010 |
| Telescope | Orion ED80T CF Refractor with the Tele Vue TRF-2008 flattener/reducer, Operating at f/5.1 |
| Mount | Orion Sirius EQ-G |
| Camera | Parsec 8300C |
| Exposure | 24 x 480 second exposures |
| Guiding | Orion StarShoot AutoGuider |
| Processing / Software | MaxIm DL 5.06 and Adobe Photoshop 7.1 |
| Notes | The fun an ease of one-shot-color cameras! Actually I'm quite pleased with the Parsec 8300C's low noise which allowed me to aggressively stretch the image taken from only 8 minute subexposures. |
