M42 - The Orion Nebula

[evltoy]

Hi All,

Not as good as the ones posted up here, but this is my first shot at it. Did this in SE Vic 20/01/21 at 12:30am



Like to hear your comments on where I can improve

Capture details:
Date: 20/01/21
Location: Officer, Vic.
EQ wedge & F6.3 Reducer
Celestron Evo 8
Nikon D80
ISO: 1600
Lights: 38 @ 40sec (25min:20sec)
Darks: 30 @ 40sec
Flats: 30
Bias: 30
Post work: DSS & PS

Cheers
Wayne

[purple-lazy]

Hi Wayne, as another beginner this looks great to me!

You seem to be starting to get some really nice detail coming out. Mine looks a little blurrier or smeared to me - so good job on the focus and tracking.

I wonder if you stretch the image a bit more if could you get some more wispy detail coming out?

[Robert_T]

plenty of detail for a relatively short exposure. I wonder whether playing with you back-spacing a bit might yield better shaped starts away from the center. There's bee some optimum distance from your reducer to the camera sensor for the specific 0.63 reducer you''re using.

[evltoy]

Thank you all for your comments. I'm pretty happy with the outcome so far.



I'm very new to PS... how does one stretch the image a bit more?




hmmm. That is an awesome tip! I was trying to work out how I could get my stars on the edges to be more rounder.
Current I have just the reducer, standard T-adaptor with the SLR T-ring. I do have some spacers (5, 10 & 20mm) that I can use. I will give the 5mm spacer a shot first and see what happens :thumbsup: