Right Ascension: 12h:56.7m, Declination: 21d:41m(deg:m)
Visual Brightness: 8.5 Mag, apparent Dimension is 10 x 5.4 arc minutes, Distance: about 20 to 25 (million light years)

Optics: Celestron C-8 @ f6.3 for 1280mm, Schmidt Cassegrain
Adapter: Celestron f6.3 reducer
Date: 05/20/2006, Time: 05:10:35 UTC
Exposure: 2 Luminance images of 300 seconds each
Filter: SBIG CFW8-A clear
Resolution: 800 x 600
Guiding: SBIG ST-2000XM with internal TC-237 guider
Acquisition: SBIG ST-2000XM camera
Mount: Losmandy G-11 with Gemini GOTO
Software: SBIG CCDOPS ver 5.41B6NT
notes: Autodark added to each image. Hot and cold pixel removal, soft DDP, stacked in CCDSoft

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Last edited:9/4/2006, by Don Lewis, Wye Mountain Observatory