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Date/Location June 8, 2018 KEASA Observatory, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii
Camera and Settings SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD camera -10°C
Telescope 8-inch f/8 Ritchey–Chrétien Cassegrain (with a Televue 0.8x focal reducer/field flattener yielding f/6.4)
Mount Paramount MyT German equatorial mount
Exposure 60 min (6 x 10 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6
Other Mag. 8.8 globular star cluster in Ophiuchus. 23 arc minutes in diameter. Cluster stars difficult to distinguish from foreground Milky Way stars!
NGC6284
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