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Picture Details:

Optics 24-inch RC Optical Systems Telescope

Camera SBIG STL11000 CCD Camera

Filters Custom Scientific

Dates March 28th and 29th 2009

Location Mount Lemmon SkyCenter

Exposure LRGB = 180:40:40:40 minutes

Acquisition ACP Observatory Control Software (DC-3 Dreams),TheSky (Software Bisque), Maxim DL/CCD (Cyanogen)

Processing CCDStack (CCDWare), Mira (MiraMetrics), Maxim DL (Cyanogen), Photoshop CS3 (Adobe)

Guest Astronomers Sid Leach and Dale Cupp

Credit Line Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona (Board of Regents)

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