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M20: Trifid Emission and Reflection Nebula in Sagittarius

Right Ascension18 : 02.6 (h:m)
Declination-23 : 02 (deg:m)
Distance5.2 (kly)
Visual Brightness9.0 (mag) 
Apparent Dimension28.0 (arc min)
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80 second (10 x 8 sec.) exposure using the PC camera with Dave Allmon's QCV2 software on the 8" Newtonian.

Dark frame processing, image alignment, and stacking was done with Dave Allmon's DarkGen program.
Final processing performed with Photoshop.
7/7/2000