A very commonplace M-42

[nandopg]

Dear Friends,
With the raining season approaching it is very difficult to image the objects of summer, among them M-42.
That is why I took advantage of this little chance the weather gave me and did this capture of M-42 using a wideband filtering system.
The subs were somewhat short in order to be possible to finish the job in one single night, because M-42 was rising late and and the Sun was rising early, besides the forecast for the next day had been cloudy with some rain.

Luminance:
6 x 30sec bin 1x1
8 x 60sec bin 1x1
12 x 300sec bin 1x1

RGB
8 x 300sec subs of each channel

Bias, Darks and Flats applied.

With the luminance frames I built a HDR image to preserve the details of the Trapezium, although the ideal would be to have complete LRGB images to do so.

The scope used was a TMB 92mm f/5.5 and the camera a ST8300M. Pre-processing and processing in Pixinsight.

Full resolution image here

Despite to be a commonplace image, I hope you like it.

Thanks for looking,

Fernando

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Arrrg ...M42 season is upon us again

naaah, just kidding Fernando, love all images, a very nice result

Mike

[nandopg]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Arrrg ...M42 season is upon us again

naaah, just kidding Fernando, love all images, a very nice result

Mike

You are right Mike, but you see, I am doing astrophotography for 12 years now and never managed to image M-42 or any of the summer objects. This year I decided to keep an eye in every chance the weather may give me to capture all of these objects.

I was even thinking to travel to North of the country to get good sky... but this project won't happen because of my work issues.

So, in a certain sense for me they are all new and you guys will have to bear them.

Thank you,

Fernando

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by nandopg

So, in a certain sense for me they are all new and you guys will have to bear them.

Bring them on!

[nandopg]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Bring them on!

All right Mike, I will do it.

Regards,

Fernando

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

A very nice image Fernando

Jo

[multiweb (Marc)]

Beautiful colors. Well done.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Nice shot, Fernando

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Very good Job, nothing wrong with that... Was shooting this at <10degrees in Altitude lastnight, had computer issues so couldn't continue.. great work, would like to see more summer images from you.

[cosmophoton (Luiz)]

Nice colors Fernando!
Luiz

[oernulfs (Ørnulf)]

Very nice picture Fernando. I'm impressed.

[gregbradley]

An oldie but a goldie. Nice M42.

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

Nice smooth effort Fernando. It has a dreamy look to the nebulosity, something often removed from sharpening techniques.

[hotspur (Chris)]

great image,well done-fine workon of the best I've seen of M42.

[nandopg]

Thank you so much for the positive feedback and for the kind comments, I really appreciated each one of them.

From October 10th to 27th I started collecting narrow band data of M-42, basically to try to capture some dark nebula structures presente in M-43. I think I succeeded in capturing such interesting structures.

I apologize again, but I couldn't help to upload the narrow band version, to show this very interesting dark nebular structures.

The full resolution image is here

Thanks for looking again,

Fernando

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Nothing common place about it, it's a wonderful image.

-Tom

[cosmophoton (Luiz)]

Outstanding, wonderful details and colors!

[gregbradley]

I quite like the narrowband image. Its very striking.

Greg.