Orion and Running Man from Lostock

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

I'd forgotten I had taken a round of shots of M42 at Lostock. Found them tonight.

300D, Orion 80, ISO800, 10x5min, calibrated, aligned and combined in ImagesPlus, curves and levels layer adjustments in PS CS, filtered in Neat Image.

[asimov (John)]

One word: WOW!!!

Spectacular image Paul! I like that a LOT!

[cjmarsh81]

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!

[h0ughy (David)]

Pretty ordinary there Mate! I wished i took ordinary shots like that more often!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

@h0ughy. Thanks guys.

I'm hoping to do a bit more with it after collecting a few more images. I've got some 30 sec images (for the Trap) and some 3 min images. If I can pick up maybe some 8 min images and then learn to layer mask properly I should be able to get some more out of it. I think next time I wont go quite so heavy on the levels as it's looking a bit too dark online.

Thanks for looking

[RB (Andrew)]

What a Beautiful image Paul.
Well done, there's just no getting tired of the Orion Neb region.
And Lostock keeps on giving doesn't it?
While working back very late last night I had a look at my originals on the Compact Flash card and found some unprocessed Horse Head and Flame images. Will try and get to them soon.

Again well done and thanks for sharing with us Paul.

[iceman (Mike)]

I love the running man!

A few shorter exposures of the trap area would've looked really nice masked against the great nebula you've captured.

Well done.

[Orion]

That is Nice!

[Octane (Humayun)]

Paul,

That is amazing. I love it.

I agree with the others -- can't wait to see what you do with the lower ISO/shorter exposure images for The Trap.

Play around with masking in Photoshop, it isn't overly difficult.

Regards,
H

[ving (David)]

great shot paul!!!
amazing what you can get out of such a small scope hey

[ausastronomer (John Bambury)]

Lovely shot Paul.

Louie and I also had a good visual observation of the running man on the Friday Night at Lostock.

CS-John B

[Striker (Tony)]

Nice image Paul...how can you wait so long to process an image...even the excuse that you forgot is just as a bad....I can't wait to get home and start processing.

The dark point does seem to dark so your missing heaps of detail...I know you wont mind me having a go processing the existing image.

[acropolite (Phil)]

Nice detail, round stars, excellent result Paul.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

NP Tony.

Thanks again guys. Phil some of the stars are a bit too round for me. I think my lense must have been fogging up a bit towards the end. Notice V372 ori just to the left of the nebulosity. And Tony's processing has brought it out in some of the fainter stars. Fair bit of halo there. Don't really know what it was from, can only think of a light dew as it being the brighest star in the shot is showing it the worst. It's evident on fainter stars but much more pronounced on it.

[davidpretorius]

you dso guys make this part of astronomy an absolute work of art.

congrats!

[Volans]

Crippen..that's all I can really say!!! Outstanding shot indeed...tell the truth now...you hacked into the Hubble didn't you??

Congrats Paul, top effort!

[beren]

Congrats Paul superb image

[tornado33]

yes its captured the diffuse outer loop on left side, well done.
Scott

[atalas]

Nice shot Paul !

[Itchy]

Originally Posted by Striker

Nice image Paul...how can you wait so long to process an image...even the excuse that you forgot is just as a bad....I can't wait to get home and start processing.

The dark point does seem to dark so your missing heaps of detail...I know you wont mind me having a go processing the existing image.

Great job Tony, and great capture Paul.

Well done