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• RA: 18:54
• Dec: +33.02
• Magnitude: 9.0
• Distance: 4100 ly
• Constellation:  Lyra

• Scope: 8" SCT at f/10
• Autoguider:  ST-4 in faint mode
• Sky conditions:  Above average transparency and seeing
• Camera:  Hutech modified Canon 300D
• Exposure:  4 x 5 minutes
• Date:  August 23, 2009

Comments: This is a replacement shot for the 2005 image that suffered from bad guiding.  Temperature was about 60F. The shots were processed in Images Plus, dark frame applied,  and finished in Photoshop. I can just make out the galaxy IC1296 near M57 at the 4 o'clock position.