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Old 11-09-2005, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by davidpretorius

Big question, can you get the 6 inner stars or orion sharp in detail and also get the lovely colours of the nebula. I think that would be the ultimate.
usually the way to do this is to composite a short exposure of the Trapezium area with a much longer exposure for the rest of the nebula. see

http://www.astropix.com/HTML/J_DIGIT/COMP2.HTM
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