[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Great image Rolf!

Never seen orion like this before, very interesting to see the stars pop out of that mass of nebulosity.

Cheers,

Justin.

Thank you Justin I was surprised by the amount of hidden stars too, it was fascinating to see how they pop out compared to a visual image.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Great shot and assorted blurb. Always something new and interesting to show.

Thank you Marc, I'm glad you enjoyed it

Originally Posted by CoolhandJo

nice - colours lovely

Thanks Paul, I worked quite a bit to achieve a sensible combine that would highlight the NIR details while preserving some pleasing colours.

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Nicely done Rolf. I always find IR images interesting. I did M42 with my IR filters a while back but I think your rendition is more aesthetically pleasing than mine. Good write-up too.

My NIR M42 is here:

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/M42_IR_STL11K_RC.htm

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve, that's a great shot of the core you've got there. The seeing was not super when I took this so I didn't make a large crop of the Trapezium area, but it's on the bucket list

Originally Posted by ourkind

I thoroughly enjoyed the writeup and your image, APOD for sure! Thank you so much for sharing it.

If I may ask, are all the red stars within the nebula or withinANDbehind at varying distances across our galaxy. Is it possible with your gear and longer exposures to also capture galaxies behind these obscuring dust clouds?

Thank you Carlos The golden/red stars are mostly confied to the nebula, but I suppose some are slightly in front and others slightly behind, in relation to the centre. They are probably all recently condensed out of the core area and share proper motion so cannot have wandered too far off yet I assume.
Capturing galaxies behind the nebula might be tricky, but some might be poking through in the outskirts given long enough exposure.

Originally Posted by RickS

Very interesting view, Rolf!

Thank you Rick

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Fascinating image. I always like to see different views of old favourites.

Thanks Kevin, yes it's always fun to put a new angle on these things.

Originally Posted by Larryp

Very nice-certainly a different take on it!

Thank you Larry, I was surprised by how different and yet very familiar it looks, glad you liked it

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Great shot Rolf, like Steve C's it's a slightly different perspective, love all the stars.

Had another surf of your web site while I was looking at this image, it's a great collection you are massing mate.

The 12.5" is looking great too

MIke

Thanks very much for your kind words Mike. The 12.5" build is going well (I've recently updated the build thread) and I'm looking forward to the final result. Hopefully the mirror will get here in Jan/Feb, so not too far off now!