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Pearson College of the Pacific in Metchosin is located at a dark site, and has a well-equipped observatory available to the students.  Mark Wheen is the teacher responsible for the observatory, and is an enthusiastic amateur astronomer.  He is often supported by RASC member Bill Weir.

M51 Whirlpool Galaxy - Apr 21, 2006 - using a Meade 10" LX-6 SCT at f/3.3 and an SBIG 2000XM CCD imager, 30 second exposure processed with Maxim DL. Photo by Mona Aditya, Tomas Jagelka & Mark Wheen.
M104 Sombrero Galaxy - Apr 21, 2006 - using a Meade 10" LX-6 SCT at f/3.3 and an SBIG 2000XM CCD imager, 30 second exposure processed with Maxim DL. Photo by Mona Aditya, Tomas Jagelka & Mark Wheen.
Saturn - Feb 2, 2006 - using a C8 at f/20 and a Philips Vesta Pro 690 K imager, 100 images stacked using Maxim DL. Photo by Sebastian Arroyo.
Mars - Nov 17, 2005 - using a C8 at f/50 and an SBIG ST 2000xm CCD imager.  Several students were involved.
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