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This is a series of images that spans 1.5 hours.  The animation starts 20 minutes prior to impact and ends 70 minutes after impact.  There are a total of 78 frames displayed at 30 fps.  Each image is a 1 minute exposure.  The series of images were collected with a Losmandy G-11, Meade 10" SCT at f/5.2, SBIG ST-10XME CCD camera, 2x2 binning, Schuler photometric V filter with a field scale of 2.14 arc seconds per pixel by Greg Morgan and Fred Ringwald from Clovis, California.