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Taken on March 15, 2008 from my backyard in Castro Valley, Ca.
Stinger
450 Classical Cassegrain (18" f/12.6)
Lumicon Giant Easy Guider with Focal reducer for final: F= 3366mm, f/7.1
(binned 2x2, image scale = 0.84 arc-sec/pixel at capture)
Finger Lakes PL3200ME imaging camera operated at -45C
Robofocus
Finger Lakes CFW1 Filter wheel
SBIG ST7E guide camera
25 exposures of 5 minutes with no filter
two hours 5 minutes total exposure time