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M1 - The Crab Nebula 09-Jan-2010

10 - 10 min. frames with the SBIG ST-8300M (monochrome) CCD camera at -10C. Telescope configuration: TEC-140 (980mm, f/7) and no focal reducer, yielding an image scale of 1.14 arc-seconds/pixel; Astro-Tech 2" field flattener. Mount: Losmandy G11 w/Gemini. Focused using a Bahtinov focus mask. Post processing: 20 dark frames; calibrated, aligned, combined and DDP applied in ImagesPlus 3.75 (Auto Image Set Processing). Curves in Nebulosity2.

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