M42 (short subs)

[traveller (Bo)]

A late M42 for the season, but I wanted one with the core relatively "intact" and not blown out. So here it is
100 subs of 30 secs at 800ISO
ED80/Canon 1100D/EQ6 from my light polluted backyard.
This is only a quick stretch, I need to learn more about luminescence layering/masking to tease out more details.
Comments welcome!
Bo

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Pretty good looking result. Looks a bit black-clipped though, I think there's more data in there yet.

It may be worth scaling down your images to a lower resolution so you don't have to suffer all the JPEG artefacts. I usually post mine about 1100x700 pixels and 50-60% JPEG compression.

cheers,
Cam

[traveller (Bo)]

Thanks Cam, will give that a try.
Bo

[Somnium (Aidan)]

Really nice Bo, there probably is some more info you could tease out in the blacks but nice tracking and dynamic range

[traveller (Bo)]

Thanks Adian and Cam,
I had a bit of play and managed to get some more details out. But there seems to be a bit of sky glow between M42 and the running man (didn't use LP filter).
Bo

[Zane (Zane)]

That looks fantastic I can't wait to start taking some pics of my own but I still have some ways to go learning about cameras yet

[vlazg (George)]

Bo
Do you have PixInsight? The DBE might help with the skyglow

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Nice one Bo it's too easy to blow out the core but you've not and still got plenty of fainter nebulosity there.