M42 Reprocessed

[blueskies123_89]

Hello everyone,

I havn't been taking new data for a while now, so decided to revisit the M42 data I took christmas last year. Hope you like it.

Here it is
http://www.pbase.com/gzhou_astrophotography/image/130383974/original

I wanted to go for a more natural look this time. The image is made of ~8hrs of 10min ISO200 subs taken with a FLT132 and unmodded Canon 400D.

And here is the original edit I made earlier this year
http://www.pbase.com/gzhou_astrophotography/image/124627100

Cheers and thanks for looking
George

[TrevorW]

Definitely a more natural appearance, soft and suttle

[mill]

Wow that is nice and easy on the eyes, The trap is clearly visible and the whole picture is very smooth :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Wow! Love it!. The core amongst other things comes up real nice. Top process. :thumbsup:

[paulF]

Woooooow! Love the details and how natural the colors are !Best M42 i have seen yet if i may say!

[strongmanmike]

I like'em both for different reasons.

I like the colour vibrancy of the first and the soft colourful glow across the image while the second is smooth and has a nice dark sky...I recomend you try blending the main nebulous areas of the first into the second (I had a play in PS and I recon it looks good :thumbsup:)

Nice job allround though George

Mike

[h0ughy]

like what you have achieved - love the natural looking colours

[blueskies123_89]

Thanks guys! Going back to old data is always fun :)

I think for my original I wanted to bring out the dust in the background, and in doing so I went overboard with the stretching. I didn't realise how noisy it was until a second look some time later.



Thanks Mike! Thats an interesting idea that I didn't think of! I think the colour from the original was also contributed by 10hrs of OIII data that I didn't include in this copy. I will have a go and blending that in and see what I get. The OIII was taken at lower resolution on an ED80, hence was left out this time. But we'll see how it goes.

Cheers, and thanks again
George

[danielsun]

Very nice George! Really love the repro version, very soft and smooth.:thumbsup:

Cheers Daniel.

[atalas]

Good work George....I like the first version better.

[Hagar]

Very nice work George, Subtle soft colours and very smooth over all.

Well done.