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The higher contrast and more balanced color saturation of the Supra 400 yielded this colorful star field with the Schmidt Camera. The left cluster, NGC884 is listed at 6.1 magnitude, and 29 arcminutes in size. On the right, NGC869 is the same size, but a bit brighter at magnitude 5.3. Both contain an abundance of orange supergiant stars, as does the entire field of this image. The dark nebula off to the right is Barnard 201, obscuring the stars in the background in this very rich stellar field.

Instrument:  8" f/1.5 Celestron Schmidt Camera
Platform:  Homemade GEM
Film:  Kodak Supra 400
CCD Autoguider: None
Exposure:  2x8mins
Filters:  Clear
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation:  6800 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 8/10, Transparency 10/10
Outside Temperature:  -10 C
Processing: Photoshop, PW Pro.

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