The images below were taken from my back yard in central Tucson, AZ. I've been struggling with the tracking of the Ultima 2000 on the wedge, as can be seen by the star shapes in the images below. I did only a crude polar alignment because I was too lazy to do a star drift test so I can't blame the tracking problems entirely on the Ultima. I've yet to get a decent image beyond 30 seconds' exposure and will continue to find a way to obtain images closer to what this set-up is capable of doing. On a positive note, the Ultima 2000 really did an excellent job of locating these objects - M13 was the only one that wasn't fully on the CCD chip (it was half-way off the upper edge).

All images were obtained with a Celestron Ultima 2000 Schmidt-Cassegrain (8" aperture) using a SBIG ST-37 camera @ f/1.95.

M101. Three 40 sec images (each minus one 30 sec darkframe) combined. Camera temp = -13 C. 0550 - 0559 UT 04/21/2001. The glow on the left half I think is from a neighbor's porch light.	M104, The Sombrero Galaxy. Five 30 sec images (each minus one 30 sec darkframe) combined. Camera temp = -13 C. 0649 - 0655 UT 04/21/2001
M13, The Hercules Globular Cluster. Five 30 sec images (each minus one 30 sec darkframe) combined. Camera temp = -13 C. 0706 - 0708 UT 04/21/2001	M51, The Whirlpool Galaxy. Eight 30 sec images (each minus one 30 sec darkframe) combined. Camera temp = -13 C. 0541 - 0547 UT 04/21/2001
M5. Five 30 sec images (each minus one 30 sec darkframe) combined. Camera temp = -13 C. 0715 - 0717 UT 04/21/2001	M81. Five 30 sec images (each minus one 30 sec darkframe) combined. Camera temp = -13 C. 0618 - 0621 UT 04/21/2001. The background glow is from both the neighbor's light and the post image processing to bring out the spiral arm structure.
M82. Five 30 sec images (each minus one 30 sec darkframe) combined. Camera temp = -13 C. 0604 - 0610 UT 04/21/2001.	NGC4565, The Needle Galaxy. Five 30 sec images (each minus one 30 sec darkframe) combined. Camera temp = -13 C. 0639 - 0644 UT 04/21/2001.
	All images captured and processed using:                    MaxIm DL/CCD 2.0
NGC3628. Five 30 sec images (each minus one 30 sec darkframe) combined. Camera temp = -13 C. 0631 - 0636 UT 04/21/2001. The background glow is, again, from a neighbor's porch light.