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M45 (Pleiades - Merope Nebula)
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Object Notes:
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- Constellation: Taurus
- Location: RA: 03h 46m 19s Dec: 23d 52m 00s Epoch 2000
- Type: Reflection Nebula
- AKA: ngc1435, Cedarblad 19I
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Instrument:
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Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope
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Focal Ratio:
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f7.2 (prime focus)
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Film:
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Fuji Provia 400 35mm Slide Film (unhypered)
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Exposure:
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60 minutes
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Camera:
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Nikon F4 (with DW21 6x finder and type M focusing screen)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Custom camera/guider/telescope adapters made by
PreciseParts.
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Guiding:
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Off-Axis with STV Autoguider
(Santa Barbara Instrument Group)
(See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
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Date:
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9/25/03
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Post Processing:
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Photographic Grain smoothed with Alex Mellinger's
bgsmooth program.
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