M 102 (Dra)

Technical data:    This image was done in cooperation with the Capella-Obseratory team and using their 24"f/8-Cassegrain telescope located in Crete/Greece

                           SBIG STL11000 with Custom Scientific-Filterset

                           LRGB exposure times in total (L=10x900s; R=4x900s; G=3x900s; B=4x900s; all unbinned)

                           FWHM of this image is 1,7" in the summed luminance file

                           Authors: Volker Wendel, Stefan Binnewies, Josef Pöpsel, Bernd Koch

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Older version shot in germany:

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Technical data:    15"f/5,4 Newtonian with Paracorr corrector

                           SBIG ST10XME, CFW8

                           LRGB (L=4x600s; R=3x300s; G=3x300s; B=3x300s; color channels bin 2)

                          Comments: night with medium transparency, mag 5,5

                           Author: Volker Wendel

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