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27-Apr-2020

First Light!!!

A successful First light!
This is 260 minute Luminance image using 10 minute subs of NGC 4731. The galaxy's dimensions are 6.7x4.1 arc minutes - quite small. It's about 65 million light years away.
FOV 37.3 x 24.6 arc minutes @ 0.59 arc second/pixel
Average seeing was fair to poor at 2.7 arcsec FWHM.
Collimation is good!

For a full resolution image see https://pbase.com/gailmarc/image/170666070/original


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