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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 Hydrogen-Alpha and IR-blocking RGB dichroic filters

• Date: Saturday, December 26, 2000
• Location: Joshua Tree National Park, CA
• Elevation: Approx. 3500'
• All exposures were shot unbinned
• Total exposure time: 4 hours. (48 exposures of 5 minutes each)
• Exposures (each of two panes in the mosaic):

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