Object Notes:

• Constellation: Orion
• Location: RA: 05h 41m 54.0s Dec: -01d 51' 00" Epoch 2000
• Size: 30 x 30 arc-minutes
• Type: Diffuse Nebula
• AKA: Cedarblad 55P

Instrument:

Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope

Focal Ratio:

f7.2 (prime focus)

Film:

Kodak E200 (Pro) 35mm Slide Film (unhypered)

Exposure:

120 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:

1/17/04

Post Processing:

Photographic Grain smoothed with Alex Mellinger's bgsmooth program.