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Old 10-09-2006, 03:06 PM
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Thanks everyone for your inspirational comments about the image of M42 that I did.

The easiest thing about imaging M42 is the fact that it's so comparably brighter than other deep sky objects.

On the other hand, the hardest thing about imaging M42 is that it's central region is so bright, it generally over exposes and saturates white on even relatively short exposures.

So my recent challenge was to create an image of M42 without the core region being saturated, and this latest image is a result of that "challenge".

So thanks again for your comments, glad you liked the image.

Paul M
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