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M42 (ORION NEBULA)

M42 (ORION NEBULA)

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Object Notes:
  • Constellation: Orion
  • Location: RA: 05h 35m 12s Dec: -05d 27m 00s Epoch 2000
  • Size: 90 x 60 arc-minutes
  • Magnitude: 4.0
  • Type: Diffuse Nebula/Open Cluster
  • AKA: ngc1976
Instrument: Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope
Focal Ratio: f7.2 (prime focus)
Film: Fuji Provia 400 35mm Slide Film (unhypered)
Exposure: 10 minutes
Camera: Nikon F4 (with DW21 6x finder and type M focusing screen)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Custom camera/guider/telescope adapters made by PreciseParts.
Guiding: Off-Axis with STV Autoguider (Santa Barbara Instrument Group)
(See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Date: 3/30/03

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