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Picture No 157. Courtesy of Eric Walker.
Year: 2008

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M42 & M43

Testing out my new autoguiding interface and software. By the time I got everything set-up and worked out how to use things Orion was getting a bit low in the SW. I still wanted to squeeze off at least one image of The Hunter's Sword and managed to get this single image.

Canon EOS 400D piggybacked on auto-guided LX50 mount with Sigma 70-300mm f4-5.6 APO DG Macro telephoto zoom lens. One manually focused 90sec exposure at ISO 1600. Image processed as Tiff file in Photoshop CS and NeatImage.

(Not bad for a test image! - Antony)
Picture added on 12 January 2008.

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This is truly stunning actually. Very impressive. I still need to come and have a look at your setup sometime soon!
Added by Maarten de Vries on 12 February 2008.

If you found this interesting, have a look at this group of pictures.
Messier Objects

For more information on this subject see the following website.
Eric's Astronomy Blog.

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