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Date/Location December 1 & 3, 2016 and December 22, 2017 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
Exposure 240 min (24 x 10 min)
Processing CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6
Other Mag. 10.4 planetary nebula in Cetus. Called the Skull Nebula. 4.0 x 3.5 arc minutes in size.
NGC246
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