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Photographer:

Sam Pitts

Location of Photo:

Wolf Creek, Oregon

Date/Time of photo:

3/31/2002 8:30 PM

Equipment:

Losmandy G11, FS78 guide scope,Tokina 300, Canon F1 camera Kodak Slide Film

Description:

3/31/2002 8:30 →11:00 PM Latitude: 43° 54’ 57.96 N Longitude: 123° 27’ 18.64” W Altitude: 1405’ Just off Wolf Creek Rd 4.1 miles W of Panther Creek Road., Veneta, Or Seeing: VG Transparency : 5 Bortle: 3 SQM: Mount: G11 (non-GoTo) Takashi FS 78 Refractor/piggyback Telescope/Optics: 300mm f/2.8 lens Camera: Cannon F1, Kodak Elite Chrome 200 push-II FOV: 6.9° Information: Scanned with Nikon Super COOLSCAN 5000 ED and processed in PhotoShop, M31 is visible just to the right of Comet Ikeya–Zhang C/2002 C1. Manually guiding w/G11 & FS78 really helped.

Website:

https://www.samsastro.com/