The Orion Nebula 4/18/06

[paul f. campbell]

Hi group. Heres a new try at M-42. I am not there yet but I am working on it.
This photo was taken using my 125 etx and a sony cybershot mounted to a 40mm lens. this is a 30 sec. shot.

Next time out I will use a 18mm lens and a nebula filter. I did my alignment tonight using Polar finder. After I got polaris focused in my 12mm illuminated reticle lens, I moved the scope to right untill polaris was in the outer ring on my 8x50 polar finder scope.

I checked polar finder one more time on the computer, it looked good to go so I sent to Saturn. With out any star alignment it went right to Saturn and was in the mid left side of a 40mm lens.

I centered it and let it track for 40min and it was still in the lens when I was finished with dinner. This is a great program and its free.

[crosscountry]

very nice. My Cybershot has troubles, but I used it with a Dob.


Good job!

[Melusine]

Nice Paul! Glad to see you back on nebulae M42. Beautiful burst of blue.

[Ahmad.ra]

Excellent!
Always M42 was & is my interestest nebula!

[mickal555]

Cool- nice to see some more deep sky objects here