M42 & Running Man with WO 110mm APO, 2nd attempt

[PhotonCollector (Paul)]

Well... in between the recent weeks of storms and clouds we were blessed with one clear night recently and of course i put the new William Optics 110mm APO refractor into immediate action

I also used the WO 0.8x field flattener/reducer which brings the f/ratio down from f/5.95 to a pretty fast f/4.8

The image is 87.5-minutes long (25 x 3.5-min. subs), calibrated in Iris, masked in Photoshop, noise reduced with Noiseware.

Image was done with my modded Canon 300D and Baader UV/IR cut filter, calibrated in Iris, post processing in Photoshop.

There's a better look at the pic here
http://www.skylab.com.au/pmsa/NGC1976e.html

seasons greetings
Paul M

[leon]

Paul you have captured that well, lots of detail in there, well done.

Leon

[rogerg (Roger)]

Very nice.... velvet smooth, not a trace of noise or pixelation.

[citivolus (Ric)]

Looking good! Nice colour.

[DJVege]

Love the image! Especially the "reds" in M42.