Object Notes:

• Constellation: Orion
• Location: RA: 05h 35m 12s Dec: -05d 27m 00s Epoch 2000
• Size: 90 x 60 arc-minutes
• Magnitude: 4.0
• Type: Diffuse Nebula/Open Cluster
• AKA: ngc1976

Instrument:

Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope

Focal Ratio:

f7.2 (prime focus)

Film:

Fuji Provia 400 35mm Slide Film (unhypered)

Exposure:

10 minutes

Camera:

Nikon F4 (with DW21 6x finder and type M focusing screen)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Custom camera/guider/telescope adapters made by PreciseParts.

Guiding:

Off-Axis with STV Autoguider (Santa Barbara Instrument Group)
(See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.

Date:

3/30/03