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This is a two-minute exposure taken

on the night of September 1st 1994 (UT of observation 02/09/94:07:20).

This photograph shows a region 170 arc seconds

square which has been compressed in brightness (approximately a double

logarithm) to show both bright and faint features. Observing conditions

during this phase of the commissioning were not ideal, but this image has

a “seeing” measurement of about 0.9 arc seconds.

The image has not been re-oriented to remove either the CCD orientation or the

field rotation of the altitude-azimuth design of the WIYN telescope:

NW is up, SE to the right.

Hartmut Frommert

([email protected])

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