It's a Trap!

[Atmos (Colin)]

After Mikes recent effort of the trap I thought I'd go back into the archives and see what I might be able to dredge up from my last Mewlon image of the Orion Nebula.

It has been upscaled to buggery but it is 8x60s unguided exposures (shorter ones would have really helped tame the trapezium itself) that I'm measuring at 1.4" in the stacked image.

I've done a little bit of deconvolution and not taken any care on protecting the stars outside of the central region. I feel like I'm getting a nice clean split between H1 & H2 which I'm pretty happy with.

Once I get the collimation dialled in on my new CDK and the seeing improves to a point under 2.5" I may give it another go with a mono setup.

Thanks for the challenge Mike!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Excellent yeah, apart from the seeing, I think that's the way to get a good spllt on the close pair, don't worry too much about blowing out the rest, I should have done that too probably...but wanted a balanced looking portrait I guess?..but hey, variety is the spice of life sounds like we had similar seeing quality, what was your (original) image scale?

Mike

[Atmos (Colin)]

Thanks Mike! It was originally at 0.4”/pixel. 200x60s images in the archive, 55/200 below 1.8” and 8 below 1.5”. On the individual subs there is a little trefoil appearing, it’s more noticeable in some NGC 5139 subs I’ve got that are 1.1-1.2”.

I’m really curious to see how the BeamTech goes once the seeing clears up around here. As much as 2s exposures have been around 2” it balloons to 2.5-3” on anything longer! Just want to finish collimating
Maybe I need to move to your place

[Stephane]

That’s awesome. I can clearly see a separation between H1 & H2. Nice work.