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Date Taken 02/05/2005 at the CAS Winter Star Party in the Hocking Hills
Exposure Details 14x120s frames
Telescope/Mount Celestron Ultima 2000
Focal Length 670mm
Focal Ratio F3.3 using Meade Focal Reducer
Camera ST7E
Binning 1x1
Comments

Processed with ImagesPlus 1.72 and Adobe Photoshop 5.0.
Hutech IDAS LPR filter used.

Tracking did not do as well as I would have liked on this image. The guide star was very dim. However, I am pleased that I got a half way decent image.

**** Supernova 2005cs discovered June 27th, 2005 ****



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