From: "neale_monks" <nealegoogle@mac.com>

Date: February 10, 2006 12:34:55 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: iBot, Trapezium

Milton,

I thought I'd let you take a look at a picture of "The Trapezium" in Orion. It's not a great 

picture _per se_, far from it in fact, but what's cool is that all I used was Astro IIDC and the 

standard issue iBot camera. The exposures were done at 133 ms.

http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/astronomy/Resources/trapezium.jpg

It's captured all four stars in the Trapezium -- just! -- with the faintest one being about 

mag. 7.5. The telescope is a f/10 200 mm SCT. The frames were stacked in Lynkeos, with 

only a little post-stacking improvement.

Anyway, I don't suppose this is terribly interesting to those with high-end cameras, but for 

those of us stuck with the consumer models, it's fun to see how far you can "push" the 

equipment and still get worthwhile results.

Cheers,

Neale