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February 27 2010

A Celestial Whale in Canes Venatici

Image taken with a 10 inch Ritchey Chretien, AP900 Mount and SBIG ST-10XME/CFW10. 7x600 seconds Luminance, 6x300s RGB binned 2x. Sub Exposures calibrated, aligned and combined in CCDStack. Final color combine done in Photoshop CS2. Image Scale is .62" per pixel @ 2276mm of focal length.

Image Center: RA 12h 42m 37s, Dec +32d 29m 19s, Pos Angle 170.3d
Submitted by: William R. Mattil (wrmattil)Location: Ft Griffin, TexasDate: April 20 2009

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2010-02-27 00:34:35 GMT Teresa
What an awesome image.
2010-02-27 01:56:59 GMT dlriddle
Mr. Mattil has done it again! What great detail and data he's collected for this image! Awesome and inspiring! Keep up the great job!
2010-02-27 09:06:13 GMT ak666666
OMG!
 

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February 27 2010