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Constellation-Coma Berenices

Right Ascension: 13h 13m 42s

Declination: 18° 4' 56"

Distance: ~60,000 light years

Visual Brightness:  mag 7.7

Apparent Dimension:  12.6 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken-

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/6.4 (Sky90 Reducer), ATIK 383L Mono @ -20C, on a HDX-110 EQ-G autoguided with PHD2.5

Integrations-  RGB =6 x 300 seconds each binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDSoft, processed with CCDSoft and Photoshop CS5