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Technical Data
  Optics

Takahashi TOA-150 refractor (D=150mm, F7.3) with 645 focal reducer (F5.6)

  Camera modified Canon EOS 5DII
  Tracking Takahashi EM-400 mount, 7cm/F8 guide scope, Starfish CCD camera, auto-guided with PHD Guiding and dithered through BackyardEOS.
  Exposure

2-frame mosaic, each with 50 minutes of total integration of 5-minute individual exposures at ISO 1600.

  Time 2012/01/27
  Location Tataka, Yushan National Park, Taiwan
  Note

Images acquired with BackyardEOS. Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Final processing in Photoshop.

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