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• Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106N f/5 4-element fluorite refractor.
• Zeiss II German Equatorial Mount
• Santa Barbara Instrument Group ST-8E NABG CCD camera (1530 x 1020 pixels, 9 x 9mm, monochromatic, 16 bit, 13.8 x 9.2mm array)
• CWF8 color filter wheel with clear and IR-blocking RGB dichroic filters

• Date: Saturday, September 30, 2000
• Location: Mount Pinos, CA
• Elevation: 8300'
• Total exposure time: 5 hours
• Exposures (each of two panes in the mosaic):

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