In the foreground at lower left you can see an Astro-Physics 130 EDF shooting Omega Centauri while wearing its Kendrick dew heater. A 60mm guide scope shows at lower center. The A-P 130 was 6 inches away from the camera lens, while the near side of the Milky Way was about 5,000 light years away at the time.

• Object: Southern Milky Way
• Exposure: 90 minutes @ f/5.6
• Lens: 35mm fisheye
• Mount: Astro-Physics 600E QMD
• Guiding: SBIG ST-4 @ 700mm
• Camera: Pentax 67
• Film: Kodak E200
• Location: Vicuña, Chile
• Date: 17-Apr-02 00:20 CST
• Conditions: transparency 8/10, seeing 7/10, LVM 7, temp 55° F, RH 73%
• Processing: UMAX PowerLook 3000, Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1