Object Notes:

• Constellation: Taurus
• Location: RA: 03h 47m 30s Dec: 24d 06m 11s Epoch 2000
• Magnitude: 11.9
• Type: Reflection Nebula
• AKA: vdB 23

Instrument:

Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope

Focal Ratio:

f7.2 (prime focus)

Film:

Fuji Provia 400 35mm Slide Film (unhypered)

Exposure:

60 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:

9/26/03

Post Processing:

Photographic Grain smoothed with Alex Mellinger's bgsmooth program.