Joe wrote: > Very nice! -- Joe Thanks. For others: It helps to sometimes read the camera manual first before going out to take your pictures. I looked at my camera manual for my cheap consumer 5 meg pixel camera's "panorama" mode. Turns out in panorama mode, the camera will "ghost image" the left or right 1/6th of the prior image over the current image LCD display. That way you can line up the current picture with the prior image. The problem with this nice feature that I missed in the field is that in bright daylight illumination, the "ghost image" is pretty much invisible on the LCD display. In a test this morning, using an Orion black observing cloth over my head and the camera, I was able to easily take a series of three properly aligned images covering 120 degs either hand-held or on a tripod. On a tripod was much easier. I have not tested the "ghost image" panorama feature at night on a bright star field from a dark sky site. Three images covering 120 degrees seems to be the limits of panorama images before image rotation distortions inherent in an apparent physical spheriod field-of-view become too pronounced. Beginning with the fourth 40 deg image, inherent image rotation made it impossible to align the fourth and third images. I mention this here should others be interested in taking astronomy related wide-field panoramas and who might have a similar "panorama mode" feature on their camera. An upcoming potential wide-field photo op would be the Oct 1 sunset wide-field conjunction of Venus and the Moon. - Kurt