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Object Information
Messier object: M65
NGC (New General Catalog) number: NGC 3623
Discription: Spiral Galaxy
Note: In the Leo Triplett: M65, M66 & NGC 3628
Located in 
constellation: 
Leo
Right ascension in hours minutes: 11:18.9
Declination in degrees minutes: 13:05
Visual magnitude: 9.3
Size: 8 x 1.5 arc minutes
Image size: 55.23 arc minutes high by 40.98 arc minutes wide
Image orientation: North is top, East is left
Detailed discription of 
M65 in 
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Other 
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Observing Log
Date of observation: February 19, 1999
Time at end of first CCD image 23:22 PST
Time at end of last CCD image 23:35 PST
Observing Location: At home on the drive way
 
Observation of object:
 
Sky Conditions
 
Sky transparency: 4.2 
 (Magnitude of the faintest star visible with the unaided eye in Ursa Minor)
Moon set at 22:02 PST on  February 19, 1999
Astronomical twilight ends in the evening at 19:22 PST on February 19, 1999
Astronomical twilight starts in morning at 5:24 PST on February 20, 1999
 
Observing Equipment
 
80 mm aperture refractor telescope and CCD Cookbook Camera
CCD image time:  4 - 240 seconds images added together
 
CCD dark calibration frames: 28 - 240 seconds dark frames
 
Use Test patterns to calibrate monitor brightness, contrast, height and width