[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Last night I was determined to do better at M42. I wanted to image at different exposures and give it the High Dynamic Range treatment. This allows the Trap show show up without burnout.
I am very pleased with the result.

I enlarged the image too and it still kept fairly good detail for a Toucam on Long Exposure!

I hope you like it. I do.

ED80, Modified Toucam 840k, 0.6x FR, 120mm Achro guidescope with standard Toucam.

Capture Details: 5 x 0.5 seconds, 5 x 2 seconds, 7 x 4 seconds, 9 x 8 seconds, 9 x 12 seconds, 12 x 20 seconds, 12 x 30 seconds, 12 x 40 seconds, 15 x 60 seconds, 20 x 80 seconds, 25 x 110 seconds.

Processing: High Dynamic Range stacking in EasyHDR, De-Hot Pixelled & Guassian Blur in PhotShop.

1. Normal size
2. the enlargement (click on image when open)