First light SW Black Diamond 120

[desler]

M42 in the very wee hours this morning. With the new (second Hand) Ed 120. (I should say thanks Sad!)

12 x 1 min lights, 1000d, ISO 800, 7 darks, 25 bias frames.
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and finished off in Gimp.
Due to weather and a bit of a planetary bug, this is my first deep sky object for ages.

I'm reasonably happy with the result.

Darren

[renormalised]

Pretty good for a small number of short subs, Darren:):)

[toryglen-boy]

lovely image, well done

;)

[andrew2008]

Looks great. Surprised as well that its only 12mins of subs.

[multiweb]

Whoohoo! M42 is back :) Great shot! :thumbsup:

[toryglen-boy]

indeed,

i took a 3 minute shot of it, and the core was burned out !!!

:lol:

[sadia]

Good to see some image from the scope Darren.

[gregbradley]

Nice and sharp.

The best plan for imaging M42 is to take a series of core shots of maybe 15 seconds and then a series of long exposure shots 5 to 10minutes even 15. Then use Photoshop layers to blend in the 15 sec core shot which will be overexposed in the 10min shots.

There is a tutorial on the net about how to do that exactly.


Greg.

[telemarker]

Nice first light. Glad to see someone starting on Orion. Still a few trees in the way as yet.


Sounds nasty, over it yet? :P

[multiweb]

It's one of those targets you need to do separate exp times and layer in PS with masks to get the full dynamic range.

[DavidU]

Great info !