Hi all
Orion season is here, be prepared to be spammed for the next few months
A first start, this is about 90mins of exposure.
There's a lot still to do here. I haven't been able to figure out deconvolution in Pixinsight, and I plan to run the StarExterminator plugin in Photoshop to try and bring out some more detail without touching the stars as there's a little bit of black ringing to the brighter stars.
And in the coming months, I'll add more detail to the core with shorter exposures and try and bring out more hydrogen colour from that region.
Also noticed that there's back-focus issues with this image; will need to add spacers to get those stars at the edges nice and round.
So this is a WIP for now, but I'm happy with the output of 90mins.
Thanks for looking.
Larger image
here
edited in PI, finished in Photoshop