m42 Running Man

[jjjnettie]

A quick and very dirty m42.
Just 35 minutes of data.
7 x 5min @ iso 400.
canon 20d
ed80
heq5pro
DSS
CS3

[h0ughy]

whats this showing the trapezium clearly bit!! - -come on - you have to blow it out so it is burnt out - i can hardly recognise the image ;)

[CoolhandJo]

Great result. Pretty flat with tight stars. did you take falts and did you take darks?

[jjjnettie]

You know, I could have borrowed my friends light box too. Forgot all about it.
But yes, I took darks. Also took a handful of 30 sec subs with darks for the trap.
I played around a lot with the layering on this one. Using an unstretched copy of the main image to boost the trap image. It really helped to blend the trap in more naturally.

[DavidU]

That's a very good image Nettie:thumbsup:

[toryglen-boy]

Thats just a great all round image mate

;)

[troypiggo]

Yep - awesome!

[RobF]

Gosh - fantastic images are becoming routine 'round Kilcoy way!! :thumbsup:
Nice colour balance Jeanette, and tantalising glimses of brown dust even becoming visible in there between M43 and the Running Man. Very nice.

[Mighty_oz]

Very nice :)

[AlexN]

:thumbsup:

Oh - Yeeeaaaaahh!!

[batema]

JJJ,

Looks great. Is there some easy way you could head me in the right direction for layering as I would like to have a crack at this myself. Focus looks spot on as does tracking.

Mark

[mswhin63]

Great job JJJ love the image.

[pmrid]

Congratulations on your return to guided imaging and your success in getting your mount working. What a relief and what an image.
Peter

[RB]

Lovely result jjj !!
Good work on the layering, very smooth.

:)

[dugnsuz]

Top work JJJ - very nice processing and layering/masking.
Beautiful image
Doug

[scopemankit]

Jjjust great!

[multiweb]

Lovely shot! Extremely sharp and great colors. Looks like all your mount problems are resolved now. Very well done indeed. :thumbsup:

[gbeal]

Blimin' heck, stunning work.
Gary

[jjjnettie]

Couldn't have done it without that beaut little camera of yours Gary.:)

[Robbie]

Looks clean ,tidy and above all natural.
I'd hang it on my wall

[strongmanmike]

Yep, another goodun Jeanette :thumbsup:

It's an amzing area that, so bright hence even low levels of data come up with the goods.

Mike

[jjjnettie]

It certainly is an area of high gratification for very little input.
more data more data more data more data more data

[Hagar]

Might be quick and dirty to you but I think this is a really lovely image of a very dificult target.
Well done.