Object Information:                NGC 4536                                                     Mag. -  10.6,                                                     Constellation - VIrgo,                                                     Size - Unknown,                                                     Distance - 79 million light years [estimated], Imaged at:                                Mt. Laguna, Cleveland National Forest, San Diego County, California.                                                    Elevation - 5,500 feet Equipment:                             Optics - Takahashi MT-160 6.25" classical Newtonian at f/6.3                                                    Mount - Astro-Physics 900 GTO,                                                    Camera - Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) ST-7E  NABG CCD,                                                    Focal Reducer/Field Flattener - none, Exposure Information:         March 30, 2003,                                                    Sum of 8 exposures of 10 minutes each.                                                    High Resolution Mode (unbinned pixels), Image Acquisition Software:       CCD Soft ver. 5, Image Processing Steps:              Image calibration - AIP for WIndows.  Image registration and stacking - Mira 6.  Final processing - Adobe Photoshop 7.

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