I had a real hard time processing this one so I thought I'd post it anyway. It's heavily cropped 1:1 from the original full frame. I originally had a mosaic of different pictures of the same area with different orientation for the camera so I could get rid of halos and reflections generated by Alnitak while stacking as they didn't appear in the same place but it didn't really work
On top of that I was plagued with other internal reflections. I first thought it was a star out of the FOV but it turned out to be a chrome grab screw sticking out inside my extension tube that created those two streaks.
... learning fast.
The overall picture is not too bad and it's got details but for the obvious lines. Let me know what you think anyway. Thanks for looking.
Full frame is at:
http://www.multiweb.com.au/astro/IC434_crop_f.jpg
