M42 & M43 01/2008 - Eric Walker

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) www.astrophotos.plus.com