[APML] Finally, Got A Half Decent Picture

["Eddie Guscott" <eddie.guscott@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Hi All

Well after trying for nearly 2 years I finally got a half decent prime focus
pic on film. I've done OK'ish with wide field but this particular night I
think it all worked.
I'll let you be the judge - it's an M42 (yawn!) taken with an OM1 on a TMB
5" F6 refractor, guided with an ST4 on a 80mm F6 guidescope.
Exposure was 50 mins on Provia 400F with a separate 5 mins exposure for the
trapezium region.

I'm not sure if I've processed it the best way but this is the version I
ended up being happy with.

I would appreciate any comments or criticisms (tracking was just very
slightly off but not objectionable for me) .

There is a strange artefact around the bright star lower right of centre
that has got me puzzled. At the moment I've got it narrowed down to a spider
web inside the extension tube I used to achieve focus. Has anyone seen
anything like this before??

http://www.astropics.co.uk/m42.htm

Thank you for looking

Eddie Guscott


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