[Imme (Jon)]

Originally Posted by Placidus

Bravo! Heaps fully good. Looks like it came from a much larger instrument with much longer exposure. Beautifully processed.

And welcome!

Cheers guys.......this camera/scope just seems to ‘work’. I’m getting what I think are good results with relatively short exposures. Now I’ve got an understanding of how it all works together and the best exposure times/settings I look forward to doing some longer runs.
I was th8nking about going a mono camera but while I’m still pulling out pics like this I think I’ll stick with the simplicity OSC brings.

Originally Posted by Atmos

The first one shows the whole dynamic range well and has good colour

Thanks Atmos.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Ooo... very tasty. #1 for me too.

Originally Posted by SimmoW

Wow, great debut image Jon! Yes the first looks most natural, and nice hoovering of the dust/gas

Agreed.....#1 is probably my fav too

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

I would not worry about going from beginner to deep sky sections...there have been a few training-wheel efforts on IIS deep sky that do make you wonder...

None the less..A great M42! ...a popular subject but hard to do really well due the significant dynamic range.

Thanks Peter

Originally Posted by Joshua Bunn

great work Jon, I like the first one better.

Originally Posted by RickS

First one looks good to me, Jon

Yep....#1 it is, thanks.

Originally Posted by Stonius

I'm a beginner myself, but that looks great to me! Nice resolution and well done bringing out the dusty bits. Thumbs up from me. Looks like you're posting to the correct group to me :-)

Cheers Stonius.