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Riding piggyback on the 8 inch schmidt camera, this image was taken with the lens one stop down from open. This image illustrates the sky darkness all the way down to the horizon of this site, and the treasure of dark nebula and star clouds to be seen in this dense region of the Milky Way.

Instrument:  50mm f/2.8 Pentax Super Taukamar on K1000
Platform:  Homemade GEM
Film:  Kodak Supra 400
CCD Autoguider: ST4
Exposure:  16 mins
Filters:  NONE
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation:  6800 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 8/10, Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature:  12 C
Processing: Photoshop

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