15 May
2005
15 May
'05
2:29 p.m.
Hi Friends, I wanted to let you know I just posted a couple of Lagoon Nebula photos in my astrophoto album (thanks to the kindness of Cyn!) This is my first attempt at astronomy with my SBIG. I was in the San Rafael Swell, and I intended to take photos using a guidescope to make tracking better -- my SBIG doesn't have automatic guiding adjustments. But I could not attach my separate guider to the guide scope eyepiece holder. I took the guide scope off and just let the telescope track the best it could, with this result. Unfortunately by the time I started there wasn't much time to do a lot of photography and I only got OK set of images of the center of the Lagoon. Then the clouds moved in. Best wishes, Joe