M8 and M20
Credit: Credit: Greg Sellek
This is an image of M20 and M8 taken with a Takahashi 90 using a Canon 10D
digital camera. The image is a combination of 12x5 minute exposures taken
from the Madison Astronomical Society's (http://www.madisonastro.org) dark
sky site in Brooklyn, Wisconsin.
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