Instrument:

Meade 178ED 7" Apochromatic Refractor Telescope

Focal Ratio:

f9 (prime focus)

Film:

Fuji Provia 400 35mm Slide Film (unhypered)

Exposure:

23 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:

3/13/04