Observation Log - November 23, 2000 - Tinton Falls, NJ

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[NOTE: The seeing was pretty good tonight, but I had a short session due to clouds. Temperature was 22 degrees F. Setup was focuser/f/3.3 reducer/camera. Tonight the images were all taken WITHOUT the usual IR blocking filter. -GW]

NGC864, a galaxy in Cetus, magnitude 10.9, dimensions 4'.8 x 3'.5, surface brightness 14.4 mag/sq arcmin. The frames were shot between 10:54 and 11:53 p.m. the evening of the 23rd, and the f/3.3 focal reducer was used. This composite was made from 26 exposures for a total integration time of 26 minutes. All images were processed in AstroArt with dark frame subtraction, flat frames and flat darks, then aligned and averaged. That image was processed with an unsharp mask and the histogram was adjusted. The resulting image was moved into MaxIm and the background was flattened, and the image was finished with a contrast stretch.