First light SW Black Diamond 120

[desler]

M42 in the very wee hours this morning. With the new (second Hand) Ed 120. (I should say thanks Sad!)

12 x 1 min lights, 1000d, ISO 800, 7 darks, 25 bias frames.
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and finished off in Gimp.
Due to weather and a bit of a planetary bug, this is my first deep sky object for ages.

I'm reasonably happy with the result.

Darren

[renormalised (Carl)]

Pretty good for a small number of short subs, Darren

[toryglen-boy (Duncan)]

lovely image, well done

[andrew2008]

Looks great. Surprised as well that its only 12mins of subs.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Whoohoo! M42 is back Great shot!

[toryglen-boy (Duncan)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Whoohoo! M42 is back Great shot!

indeed,

i took a 3 minute shot of it, and the core was burned out !!!

[sadia]

Originally Posted by desler

M42 in the very wee hours this morning. With the new (second Hand) Ed 120.

12 x 1 min lights, 1000d, ISO 800, 7 darks, 25 bias frames.
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and finished off in Gimp.
Due to weather and a bit of a planetary bug, this is my first deep sky object for ages.

I'm reasonably happy with the result.

Darren

Good to see some image from the scope Darren.

[gregbradley]

Nice and sharp.

The best plan for imaging M42 is to take a series of core shots of maybe 15 seconds and then a series of long exposure shots 5 to 10minutes even 15. Then use Photoshop layers to blend in the 15 sec core shot which will be overexposed in the 10min shots.

There is a tutorial on the net about how to do that exactly.


Greg.

[telemarker (Keith)]

Nice first light. Glad to see someone starting on Orion. Still a few trees in the way as yet.

Originally Posted by desler

and a bit of a planetary bug

Sounds nasty, over it yet?

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by toryglen-boy

indeed,

i took a 3 minute shot of it, and the core was burned out !!!

It's one of those targets you need to do separate exp times and layer in PS with masks to get the full dynamic range.

[DavidU (Dave)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Nice and sharp.

The best plan for imaging M42 is to take a series of core shots of maybe 15 seconds and then a series of long exposure shots 5 to 10minutes even 15. Then use Photoshop layers to blend in the 15 sec core shot which will be overexposed in the 10min shots.

There is a tutorial on the net about how to do that exactly.


Greg.

Great info !