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Exposure: 140 min (14x10min)
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Telescope: Meade 10" LX200 @ f/10
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Mount: Meade field tripod w/ super wedge
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Guiding: AO-7 @ 5 Hz
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Camera: SBIG ST-2000XM, SBIG CFW-8
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Location: My backyard in Goleta, CA
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Date/TIme: March 28-29, 2003, 10:58-01:30 PST
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Processing, Taken, and reduced in CCDSoft v5. Combined with Ray Gralak's
Sigma Combine. Curves and Levels applied in Photoshop. 10 iterations
of LR deconvolution in CCDSharp. Slight gaussian blur of the background
in Photoshop.
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Name: M104, NGC4594, The Sombrero Galaxy
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Type: Spiral Galaxy
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Constellation: Virgo
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Distance: 65 million light years
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Angular Diameter: 8.7' x 3.5'
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First Discovered By: Pierre Mechain, 1781
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