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Antares & M4
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Antares and Globular Clusters M4 (right) and NGC 6144 (top center) in Scorpio
Date June 5 & 6, 2007
Exposure LRGB  171:60:54:51 (luminance synthesized R+G+B)
Camera ST2000XM with SBIG filters
Telescope Takahashi Sky90 @ f/4.5 on Losmandy G11 w/Gemini
Guiding Self-guided (ST237)
Processing MaximDL, PhotoshopCS2, FITS Liberator, GradientXterminator
Comments Moderately good seeing around midnight; FWHM ~ 2.0

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