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| Galaxies:
M100 / NGC 4312 / 4379
Date & Time: 5 June 2003 11 PM to 1 am Seeing: 4 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. Transparency: fair to good Location of site: Silverdale WA, USA 47N 123W Site classification: suburb-rural Conditions: temp 65 F, dry Sky darkness: 5.0 <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: 17.5 DOB, Bigdog Eyepieces: not used Additional: DX-8263SL video camera at f3 Magnification: app. 200x integrated 2 sec exposures
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M100 is called the showpiece
of the Virgo cluster, actually in Coma, but who cares. Well, it sure is
a showpiece in the Hubble pics, but in the backyard it is of low surface
brightness and a difficult target. And speaking of difficult, the two listed
companions are both small and faint, not worth wasting video tape on them,
they barely showed on the tv and I think that visually they would not be
worth the time.
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