A Grayscale M42

[dvj (John)]

http://www.astrobin.com/full/138353/0/

[gregbradley]

Sublime.

Greg.

[Kunama]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Sublime.

Greg.

I second that

[DJT (David)]

Awesome John. Not much else one can say.

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Wow! That's a refreshing view of M42. Hang that on the wall next to the kids

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Wow! Who needs colour?

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Ok Fred, stop fooling around!...give back Johns stars ...don't worry John, Fred will return them I am sure

Really great look to an old favourite there

Mike

[multiweb (Marc)]

Super sharp. That trap and sword areas came up a treat.

[Ross G]

Am amazing looking mono photo John.

So much detail and so sharp.

Ross.

[nobbygon (Angus)]

Nice John,

What equipment are you using?

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Superb John. There's a lot of detail in the trapezium region when you blow it up. The original version (ie not the jpeg on Astrobin) must be really spectacular.
Geoff

[dvj (John)]

Originally Posted by nobbygon

Nice John,

What equipment are you using?

It's the all reflecting refractor from Astro Physics. 305mm f/3.6 modified Riccardi-Honders that Roland builds. And a very old STL11000 ccd camera.

[dvj (John)]

Originally Posted by ghsmith45

Superb John. There's a lot of detail in the trapezium region when you blow it up. The original version (ie not the jpeg on Astrobin) must be really spectacular.
Geoff

The 16 bit .tiff file is excellent. I find that all Astrobin images loose a bit of depth and luster.

I've already modified the image slightly by adjusting the curves a bit around the trapezium region to where the stars pop a bit more. Then fussed a bit with the dark clouds trailing away from M43. But that has not been posted.

This should be shot with one of the newer smaller pixel cameras to resolve even more around the Trap, then blend that in. But I think OIII and SII should simply be next.

[RickS (Rick)]

Beautiful, John!

I've noticed that Astrobin appears to strip the ICC Profile from images it displays which explains why images never look quite the same...

Cheers,
Rick.

[Peter Ward]

I like it.
My cat likes it.
What's not to like?
Superb!

[dvj (John)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

I like it.
My cat likes it.
What's not to like?
Superb!

Ha! a cat of good taste! Mine could care less.

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Really nice
Erik

[stevous67 (Steve M)]

Very nice image to look at; I do like grey scale.

Steve