Hi Friends, I wanted to show off my latest astrophoto, basically a quick-and-dirty set of shots to test my new autoguider. I took it early Saturday morning, shooting from Little Mountain. First the moon put out such intense light that I waited for it to set, after 2 a.m., before looking for a target. But the change turned out to be slight, as Salt Lake City's light pollution was horrendous -- worse than it was years ago from the site. I could not see any galaxies except M31, and it was hard to spot any nebulae. I took this view while aiming in the direction of M8, but I'm not certain it is the Lagoon. It might be a close-up of an adjacent NGC object -- can anyone distinguish part of the Lagoon in it? Don? I saw Don's fabulous overall view of the Lagoon when I was uploading this pic. Anyway, let me know if you can ID it for sure. Also, I wanted to say that my Orion autoguider worked well except for the times it lost the guide star because of light pollution. I can't wait to try it in clear, dark skies. Here's the URL for the pic on my Utah Astronomy album: http://www.utahastronomy.com/main.php?g2_itemId=11551 Best wishes, Joe