Last image from way back in 2007- M42

[Garyh]

Hi guys and Gals,
Hope everyone had a great chrisy and a great new year...
Well this is my last image from 2007 taken on the 29th dec.
Luckily it was a great night with the moon and the clouds staying away just long enough to get all the exposures done.
Now I have autoguiding running I decided to drop back to iso 400 for this run of images. Everything went perfectly except my focus was a tad soft, but I am still very happy with the final result..
It has had only minimal processing like curves,levels, brightness/contrast and some noise removal as well as layering the shorter exposures into the 8 min ones to remove burnout etc.
Image is 8 x 8 min, 5 x 4 min, 5 x 2 min, 5 x 1 min and 5 x 30sec at 400 iso and my 6" newtonian and canon 300D
I think its one of my best attempts so far of M42 up to date..
All comments most welcome!..
Image slightly cropped for posting!
cheers Gary

[joshman (Josh)]

very nice, i love seeing all the intricate folds of nebulosity without having the core blown out.

very nice work!

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

beautiful gary. the blue twirls around the core are stunning. colours are pretty much spot on there .

[Alchemy (Clive)]

very nice image gary... the merging of all the different times looks really good.

[2020BC (Bill Christie)]

An excellent result, Gary.

[Tamtarn]

Beautiful image Gary. A wonderful job of blending the short exposures with the 8mins. Overall image really pleasing to look at. Just enough colour and nice background balance.

[leon]

Yea, i suppose it is OK sorry, just stuffin around, it is a beautiful image Gary well done indeed.

Leon

[RB (Andrew)]

Wonderful result Gary !

[Garyh]

Thanks Josh, Eric, Alchemy, Bill, Barb and Dave, Leon and Andrew!
I quiet enjoy imaging M42! lol and lost count on how many times I have done it! but how can resist a go every summer
cheers everyone and thanks for looking and commenting!
Cs (fingers crossed)

[Ric]

Well done Gary, very pleasing to the eye with all the intricate colours and detail.

You nailed that one very nicely to end 2007.

Cheers

[jase (Jason)]

Looking good Gary. As the other have mentioned, the colours look well balanced and "correct" (as we know them to be). A visually pleasing image indeed.