Schmidt Camera Field

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 12.5" Newtonian Image

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This mysterious object in the northern part of Orion is colored with blues and greens typical of reflection nebs in the area. But it is extremely faint, and very seldom photographed. Two images are presented here. The upper image is a widefield shot on Supra 400 of the Belt region of Orion, with IC426 marked in yellow letters. The lower image is with my 12.5 inch newtonian and an ST8i CCD. There are quite a few very bright stars in this image, making it a tough shot to get deep with CCD.

Also notice in the larger versions some of the small galaxies in this image. None of them are charted in Megatar, which normally list the anonymous objects down to 18th magnitude.

            
 Instrument:  8" f/1.5 Celestron Schmidt Camera
Platform:  Homemade GEM
Film:  Kodak PJ400
CCD Autoguider: None
Exposure:  2x8mins
Filters:  UV
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation:  6800 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 8/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  -12 C
Processing: Photoshop, PW Pro.

            
Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG ST8i NABG
Guider: SBIG ST4
Exposure:  LRGB = 60:20:20:40 (RGB Binned 2x2)
RGB Combine Ratio:  1: .8: 1.2
Filters:  RGB Tricolor
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 4.0 arcsec 
Outside Temperature:  -5 C
CCD Temperature:  -20 C

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