The Orion Nebula

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Late in the year for an M42 one would have thought, but obviously not the case.

Delightful image and somewhat unusual colour..nice.

[RobF (Rob)]

Great processing, great image Greg.
On a separate note, its great to see so many colourful thumbnails when one comes into the Deep Space forum. Great to see so many new images for us to feast our eyes on and this is a stunner.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Rod771

Greg, that is fantastic

Very inspiring

Gee thanks Rod. I am glad you liked it.

Originally Posted by seeker372011

Late in the year for an M42 one would have thought, but obviously not the case.

Delightful image and somewhat unusual colour..nice.

To be fair it was taken something like 6-7 weeks ago and I only just got around to processing it (and several others).

Originally Posted by RobF

Great processing, great image Greg.
On a separate note, its great to see so many colourful thumbnails when one comes into the Deep Space forum. Great to see so many new images for us to feast our eyes on and this is a stunner.

Thanks Rob. I find if the data is good and you concentrate on the basics like guiding and focus then the processing falls into place easily and I tending to go into a more natural style of processing. I think its my natural processing phase!!

Greg.

[PRejto (Peter)]

That is a beautiful image Greg! You sure set the bar high!

Peter

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by PRejto

That is a beautiful image Greg! You sure set the bar high!

Peter

Thanks Pete for the kind words.

Greg.

[IanP]

Great image, Greg ...

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by IanP

Great image, Greg ...

Thanks very much Ian.

Greg.

[TrevorW]

I"ll be critical cause i"m a COB and say great image nice colour but overcooked the core I'd prefer to see the trap and surrounding stars more defined

[Gem (Grant)]

M42 is imaged so often that we sometimes get picky... but I think this is a great one! Keep it up!

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

I"ll be critical cause i"m a COB and say great image nice colour but overcooked the core I'd prefer to see the trap and surrounding stars more defined

Getting the right exposure for the core is trial and error I think. I tried a couple of lengths and settled on 30 seconds. Perhaps it blew the trap a tad but perhaps also somewhere in the processing as well. Not sure. As I recall I chose that exposure length after checking the exposures and they seemed to have most of it there. Perhaps seeing was a tad weak on some subs. There's always next time!

Originally Posted by Gem

M42 is imaged so often that we sometimes get picky... but I think this is a great one! Keep it up!

Cheers. Thanks for that.

Greg.

[Ross G]

Hi Greg.

That is a beautiful M42 photo.

Sharp and detailed and I love the "natural" colours.

Nice composition.

Ross.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Ross G

Hi Greg.

That is a beautiful M42 photo.

Sharp and detailed and I love the "natural" colours.

Nice composition.

Ross.

Thanks Ross.

I did very little processing on this on the basis of its better to concentrate on the basics of an image rather than too much processing to make up for a lack of them.

Greg.