Jon, beautiful shot! Great job. I tried shooting it also with my E210 and my ST8E. I was taking 120 sec. exposures and got so much bleeding from the bright stars (which most of them are) that I can't even use it. How long exposures did you use to stack and is your 1100 an anti-blooming camera? My ST8E is not an anti-blooming. I could only run 15 sec. without getting blooming that would wipe out the whole picture, but if I only run 15 sec. I get way to much noise to use them. Thanks, Frank Martin -----Original Message----- From: az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jon Christensen Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:37 PM To: EVAC -- The List Cc: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [AZ-Observing] Faint nebulosities surrounding M42 Hello fellow Arizona stargazers, This is a photo of the Orion Nebula I took out at Vekol the night of December 4th/5th. My goal for this picture was to concentrate on bringing out the faint nebulosities that surround the nebula. I got a hint of them with last year's picture and I've been waiting a year to have another go at it and see what I found. http://members.cox.net/jonc97/images/astro/nebula/m42_2005.htm Happy Holidays, Jon Christensen -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list. -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.