M 65 - Spiral Galaxy

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Spiral Galaxy

M 65 - Spiral Galaxy
Date: Feb 21 2009 Time: 04:30 CST Location: Fort Griffin, Tx
Instrument: 253mm f/9 Ritchey Chretien Mount: AP900GTO Guiding: ST-10XME Internal Guider
Extra Hardware: Instrument Rotator Seeing: Good Transparency: Good
Camera: SBIG ST-10XME Filter Wheel: CFW-10 Filter: AstroDon L
Exposure: 10 x 600 Seconds L Camera Control: MaximDL 4.11 Processing: MaximDL,CCDStack,PSCS2
Image Center: RA 11h 19m 26s, Dec +13d 02m 10s, Pos Angle 254.4d
Effective Focal Length 2276.7 mm ~ .62" per Pixel
Notes: Calm. Temp ~20 Degrees F. Guiding was ~ .5 arc second
Also known as NGC3623