Images taken between 3:21am and 4:11am 05-Feb-2012 UT.
6 - 3 min. exposures at 10 min. intervals taken with the SBIG STF-8300M (monochrome) CCD camera at -18C. Baader 2" UV/IR filter. Telescope configuration: Celestron EdgeHD 1400 with the Celestron 0.7x focal reducer (fl=2700, f/7.6), binned 2x2, yielding an image scale of 0.82 arc-seconds/pixel. Mount: Software Bisque Paramount MX. Captured with TSXPro with PEC and ProTrack enabled. Focused using an AstroZap Bahtinov focus mask. Post processing: DDP and curves in Nebulosity3.
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