[APML]: My First OAG Deep Sky Photo

[Brian Webb <102670.1206@compuserve.com>]

I recently took my first off-axis guided, deep sky photo and it turned out
rather nicely. The shot is of the Orion Nebula (M-42; it was taken by
exposing Fujicolor 400 for 5 minutes 00 seconds at the prime focus of an 8-
inch Celestar SCT operating at f/6.3. No filter was used.

What is interesting about the photo is that it was taken from Thousand Oaks,
a city of 109,000 people located about 15 miles west of Los Angeles. We have
so much light pollution that you can barely see the brightest parts of the
Summer Milky Way.

The photo is posted on my Rawhide Space Page at:

     http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rawhide_home_page

Regards,

Brian Webb