M42 from this morning.

mill (Martin) · #1 19-09-2009, 01:07 PM

M42 taken with my Canon 40D.

7x5 minutes + 11x15 seconds iso800 on the ED80.
Cooled in my coolerbox.
Stacked in DSS and processed with CS4.

Larger pic here: http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/t...rg/m42done.jpg

Comments welcome.

leon · #2 19-09-2009, 02:57 PM

Hey Mill that is a fine effort indeed, you must have got up early or stayed up late to capture this one, or do you have horizon to horizon skies.

Leon

mill (Martin) · #3 19-09-2009, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leon

Hey Mill that is a fine effort indeed, you must have got up early or stayed up late to capture this one, or do you have horizon to horizon skies.

Leon

Thank you Leon

I stayed up all night to do this, also did ngc253 and the Helix neb before M42.
Pretty much stuffed now because i had to get out of bed at 10:00 am.
Might have another go tonight if it is clear.

David Fitz-Henr · #4 19-09-2009, 03:24 PM

Wonderful detail and great colour - very natural looking ... and I can even make out the 4 stars of the trapezium !

mill (Martin) · #5 19-09-2009, 03:58 PM

Thank you David.
I need to spend a little bit more time on focusing to get the trapezium completely resolved.

cookie8 (Vincent) · #6 19-09-2009, 04:43 PM

Very nice one Mill. Spectacular!!

renormalised (Carl) · #7 19-09-2009, 05:00 PM

Nice shot Martin...lots of detail and good colour

Most impressed with the core...no burnout at all

Those short subs do the trick

lesbehrens (Les) · #8 19-09-2009, 05:28 PM

great shot. very nice.

:eye pop:

mill (Martin) · #9 19-09-2009, 05:53 PM

Thank you Vincent, Carl and Les

seeker372011 (Narayan) · #10 20-09-2009, 01:23 AM

one of your best results, well done, worth the sacrifice of sleep

Nightskystargaz (Thomas) · #11 20-09-2009, 02:00 AM

Martin,

, nice pic. you did it well.

,

Tom

CoolhandJo (Paul) · #12 20-09-2009, 11:42 AM

Lovely colour and detail. Did you use any star bloat processing? That would make this great image even better IMHO.

dpastern (Dave Pastern) · #13 20-09-2009, 12:10 PM

That's a good shot! Amazing how much details you're pulling out with only 7 x 5 min subs etc.

Dave

mill (Martin) · #14 20-09-2009, 04:09 PM

Thank you Narayan, Tom, Paul and David

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #15 20-09-2009, 07:50 PM

Beautiful work!

Hagar (Doug) · #16 20-09-2009, 09:36 PM

Very nice Martin. Your images have improved so much. This is a real hard target to get right and this is a prety good job. By far your best M42. Great to see.
Looking forward to more.