This was a specially commissioned outreach project taken in August 2011 (initially for the AAS calendar). It consisted of 12 long and 6 short exposures in g (54 & 15 secs),r (38 & 10 secs) and i (38 & 10 secs) taken in a customised dither pattern centred on 18h04m41s -23:28:31.5 (J2000). The final image is just under 3 degrees across and has a resolution of 1 arcsecond per pixel.
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