I think I'm getting better at this

[PeterSEllis (Peter)]

Hi Guys,
My best one yet of M42.
Taken with a 150mm Esprit ED Triplet, Unmodded Canon 600D with cold finger, x25 5 minute Subs, Darks, Flats etc.
Processed Pixinsight.
Sharpened with Photoshop.

Not front page material for Sky and Telescope, but I'm bloody happy with it.

Cheers
Peter

[Spookyer (Brett)]

Good one Peter

[Atmos (Colin)]

Still quite a nice FOV with a 6", nicely done

[PeterSEllis (Peter)]

Thanks Brett and Colin for you comments.
One of the main reasons for getting the 150mm was for a larger FOV (and it nice to have a large refractor too).
My Primary Telescope is a Celestron C11, which has a good FOV for Galaxies and small planetray Nebulae, but not so good for the larger Nebulae.

Cheers
Peter

[raymo]

Nice job, now you need to take some short subs[say 20-30 secs] so you can
stop the trapezium from being blown out.
raymo

[PeterSEllis (Peter)]

Hi Ramo,
I do have a few short subs of the trapezium , I have seen how to do it on Photoshop, but not sure that it would be real easy under PixInsight.
It is certainly one trick I have thought about trying.
Cheers
Peter

[yoda776 (Matt)]

Thanks for the tips. I am certainly learning too on this.

Originally Posted by raymo

Nice job, now you need to take some short subs[say 20-30 secs] so you can
stop the trapezium from being blown out.
raymo

[Cimitar (Evan)]

Hi Peter,

That looks great. Love the colour and detail
Cheers, Evan

[Somnium (Aidan)]

that is a keeper!

[JA]

Very nice Peter. Beautiful colour

Best
JA

[sil (Steve)]

Originally Posted by PeterSEllis

Hi Ramo,
I do have a few short subs of the trapezium , I have seen how to do it on Photoshop, but not sure that it would be real easy under PixInsight.
It is certainly one trick I have thought about trying.
Cheers
Peter

Easy, RangeMask is your friend there. Especially if you havent clipped the whites you can just use Curves and RangeMask.

[Flugel88 (Michael)]

looks great the colour is superb very natural .