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Logan you have a nice photo, only overexposed.
For M42 you have to take series of different exposures, make sure you have the faint detail in your longer exposures and make sure you don't blow the core in the shorter exposures.
Usually 3 or 4 sets of exposures should be enough.
Process each set as an individual photo.
If you use Gimp then open the overexposed shot and the 2nd one, create a layer mask using the B&W version of your overexposed shot and blurr it a little. The idea is to hide the brightest areas from the overexposed shot making them transparent to the layer below: the intermediate exposure.
Then merge everything and repeat the process for your underexposed set.
Hope it helps.
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