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Date/Location December 22, 2025 (wide field), Horseshoe Bay, Texas; January 10, 2013 (narrow field) KEASA Observatory, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii
Camera and Settings SBIG ST-4000XCM CCD Camera -10°C (wide field); SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD Camera -10°C (narrow field)
Telescope Askar 71mm f/6.9 Petzval refractor; (wide field); Stellarvue SV102 102 mm apochromatic refractor at f/6.3 (using a Televue 0.8x FF/FR) (narrow field)
Mount Orion Atlas
Exposure 45 minutes (9 x 5 min - wide field); 30 minutes (3 x 10 min - narrow field)
Processing CCDOpts, Images Plus 3.0, Photoshop
Other A loose cluster of 60 stars in Perseus magnitude 7 and fainter. Overall cluster magnitude 5.2.
M34
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