Orion and the P...ladies

[beren]

Tried unsuccessfully to get some Mars images last night and in the end turned to some old old favorites before daybreak to ease the pain . Mars is one tough cookie to wrangle anything .....BTW anyone know any trade secrets to ease the brightness of the core of m42

[cometcatcher]

Try this. http://www.astropix.com/HTML/J_DIGIT/COMP2.HTM

[iceman]

That orion shot is beautiful! I love the colours in the flaring nebula.

Well done!

How long were the shots? The pleiades shot looks likes it needs a bit longer to bring out the faint nebula. Nice sharp stars, great to see these old favs back.

[beren]

Mike i was running out of time so the Orion shot is just a single 5 min exposure and the Seven sisters 2 minutes {i was trying this effect http://users3.ev1.net/~glennlray/Astro/diffusionB.html} i was testing K3ccd guiding thanks to some good advice from Paul . Thanks Kevin for the link.

[Jonathan]

Nice shots. It's good to see these 2 back in view again.

[atalas]

Both nice shots beren! without shorter exposure time I don't think you could stop the core from burning out . I took a 30 sec exposure of M42 and It still burnt out the core .

Louie :thumbsup:

[asimov]

I can't even get to the "burnout" stage with my setup! Nice photos Beren..