[niko]

The M42 here was taken with my ED80 and Canon 350D and is a stack of a handful of 10sec and 30sec images. Alignment wasn't spot on and the focus looks a bit slack but my real question is this...

Having seen Mike's M42 in a recent post should I be using a barlow to increase the amount screen real estate that M42 can occupy or should I be just collecting more data at the magnification I have so I can crop the image to get a "bigger" M42?

I wouldn't even begin to suggest any of my images could hope to come close to what I often see here but it's more about how I can make the images bigger with the set up I have.

If I use a barlow does this go between the camera extension tube I use and the scope or somewhere else in the setup.

Does that make sense?

thanks gang

niko