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These images were actually taken on Kitt Peak National Observatory's 36 inch telescope using their 64 mega-pixel MOSAIC camera. I was on an observing run, and for the last few minutes of the night, all my targets had set, so I snapped a few frames of the M97 & M108 pairing (which fits nicely into MOSAIC's 55 arcminute FOV on the 36 inch).

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WIYN 0.9 meter f/7.5 Ritchey-Chretian


Mosaic 1 (8,192 x 8,192 pixel CCD mosaic)

R (11x3 min), V (12x3 min), B (8x3 min)

Kitt Peak Observatory