From: Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@mac.com>

Date: January 17, 2009 7:52:53 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] M42

Hi Milton, Nice image- no telling what you might come up with without the turbulence! I`ve been looking at M 42 as a prospective candidate for imaging with the Flea 2 also. I even considered trying it without a FR & unguided to practise with the time exposure setting of the Flea 2 but decided against it. I`m still waiting to buy an OAG & FR- the FR looks feasible in early February. It seems if I was to use a Mogg 0.6 FR & 0.3 extender on the imaging camera I`d still need some sort of mosaic to include all of the object! Have you seen these new orion Deluxe OAGs? I`m told they have a helical focuser for the guide camera. I`m waiting to hear about availability in Australia as Orion won`t ship Internationally. Mark.

On 18/01/2009, at 1:11 PM, Milton Aupperle wrote:

Hi Folks;

Turbulence was pretty bad last night, but it was finally clear skies

and warm too.

I did a quick LRGB shot of M42 with the PGR Grasshopper camera:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/DSO/M42_20090116_MJA.jpg

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle

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