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A more recent black & white photo taken with an astronomical CCD camera is available here. A one minute exposure with the SBig CCD has gone deeper than 30 minutes from the digital SLR camera. On the other hand, the SBig only has one third of the area, so I needed to make a mosaic.
For more information, try: www.seds.org/messier/m/m042.html and www.seds.org/messier/diffuse.html| Date | 14th January 2005 |
| Telescope | 250mm F4.8 Newtonian Reflector with coma corrector |
| Mount | Vixen GP-DX |
| Detector | Canon 300D SLR camera |
| Exposure (seconds) | 60 x 30s |
| Software | IRIS |