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This splendid nearly edge
            on spiral galaxy in Lynx shows beautiful delicate dust lane details
            over its core. Shining at 10.6 magnitude, it spans 11 arc minutes
            wide. As expected, the B-V index (reddening) is +.89 due mostly
            to the yellowing effects of the dust. There are over two dozen
            minor faint galaxies in this image as well. Perhaps the brightest
            is just above and to the left of the core. This 16th magnitude
            inclined spiral is only .7 minutes wide and very yellow from
            extinction.
Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Mount:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Water Cooling
Guider: Meade DSI Pro  w/Lumicon Newt Easy Guider
Exposure:  LRGB = 120:20:20:20 
AstroDon RGB Combine Ratio:  1: 1.05: 1.2
Location:  Payson, Arizona, Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 4.5 arcsec (Maxim DL - 10min subframe), Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature:  40 F
CCD Temperature:  -30 C
Image Processing Tools: 
Maxim DL:  Calibration, deblooming (Starizona Debloomer), aligning, stacking
PixInsight:  Curves
Photoshop CS2:  Curves, Color Correction, Gradient removal (Grad Xterminator), Cleanup

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