After a very long summer-break in Astrophotography, I found myself with time on hand on a clear evening. After I did a series of 4 300s images for the Plejades (see below) I set the scope up to capture a few light frames on M42, the Great Orion nebula. But while I was sitting in the living room trying to get warm again, watching the Soccer Champions League, the D200's battery ran empty, and I ended up with only one long exposure. I used the single 300s exposure with a much shorter exposure to get some detail in the very bright center of the nebula to get this picture.

While waiting for Orion to rise out of the murky atmosphere near the horizon, I took a series of 4 images of the Plejades. Trying to focus the camera on the 80mm drove me crazy this time, after 30min of fiddling with focus I managed to convince myself that the image is now sharp enough (using a Bahtinov Mask) but after I downloaded the pictures to the PC I found them to be very unsharp. I got some information from the scope vendor on how to adjust (basically) loosen the focuser, let's see how it works out...