M42 The Great Orion Nebula Repro!

gregbradley · #1 03-09-2009, 01:17 PM

Orion is reasonably high in the sky now in the early morning.

I was imaging the other night and thought I would image it despite a 2/3rds full moon.

Tak BRC250, FLI Microline 8300, Astronomik filters. LRGB 44 24 24 24
The core is a composite of 5 x 15 and 5 x 30 second shots for each of
LRGB at a chilly -45C CCD temperature. At these sorts of temperatures
the FLI is virtually noisless.

Best viewed hitting F11 to make it more full screen.

http://upload.pbase.com/gregbradley/...32902/original

Greg.

mick pinner · #2 03-09-2009, 01:48 PM

magnificent Greg, with the M42 season ahead that will be hard to match.

batema (Mark) · #3 03-09-2009, 03:48 PM

That is an amazing photo.

Mark

h0ughy (David) · #4 03-09-2009, 03:51 PM

it certainly is an excellent teaser this early into the season. Lovely work

Benny L (Ben) · #5 03-09-2009, 03:55 PM

very nice indeed.. cant wait for these bloody clouds to piss off so i can have a crack at it myself lol

lacad01 (Adam) · #6 03-09-2009, 04:01 PM

Wow, that's a beauty

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Funny enough I was up at 5AM this morning and was good to see Orion again

toryglen-boy (Duncan) · #7 03-09-2009, 04:09 PM

excellent !!

i will resist the usual "good focus, excellent tracking" comments.

but, its a nice vibrant image, with a wide range of colours, and its a cracker

well done.

renormalised (Carl) · #8 03-09-2009, 05:30 PM

Wonderful image, Greg. A real pearl for the beginning of the M42 season

It's going to be a hard one to beat

peter_4059 (Peter) · #9 03-09-2009, 05:32 PM

Magnificent image Greg. I really like the colours.

Peter

desler · #10 03-09-2009, 05:37 PM

Simply beautiful greg.

Darren

Rigel003 (Graeme) · #11 03-09-2009, 06:03 PM

Terrific detail in the core. Great image, Greg.

multiweb (Marc) · #12 03-09-2009, 06:07 PM

Awesome shot Greg! Love the colors you got in the process.

Paul Haese · #13 03-09-2009, 06:16 PM

Looks a great image Greg,

just a couple of things. It looks like the layering in the core needs a little colour matching. I can see a distinct division between the core and the outer image. Is the colour deliberate or am I viewing this incorrectly?

Also quite a few stars have double diffraction spikes. A couple of them are certainly double stars, but I don't think all of them are. Is some of the data a bit doubled? Again, tell me if I am wrong. Not the first time.

Aside from these small things, I would be very happy with an image like that. It certainly gives me some idea what I will be looking at with the RC and the QSI.

Paul

Matty P (Matt) · #14 03-09-2009, 06:16 PM

Awesome image Greg. I love the colours you have managed to bring out. Very nice indeed. Excellent detail as well.

renormalised (Carl) · #15 03-09-2009, 06:30 PM

M42
season open today
$24/pelt

Hagar (Doug) · #16 03-09-2009, 06:59 PM

Lovely Greg. The Tak certainly produces the goods. I can't help but wonder if your focus may have been a little off due to the double difraction spikes or was it a result of registration or filter use.

A hard one to beat from my location and it's still a bit low at the hours I keep.

Very nice.

dpastern (Dave Pastern) · #17 03-09-2009, 07:07 PM

That's a good shot! I can't wait for M42 season again

Dave

sjastro · #18 03-09-2009, 07:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by renormalised

M42
season open today
$24/pelt

I'm not in the market. M42 is an overdone boring object.

Steven

PS Nice image Greg.

multiweb (Marc) · #19 03-09-2009, 07:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sjastro

I'm not in the market. M42 is an overdone boring object.

Steven

PS Nice image Greg.

nooo waayyyy!

gregbradley · #20 03-09-2009, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mick pinner

magnificent Greg, with the M42 season ahead that will be hard to match.

Thanks Mick.

Quote:

Originally Posted by batema

That is an amazing photo.

Mark

I am glad you like it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by h0ughy

it certainly is an excellent teaser this early into the season. Lovely work

Thanks Houghy.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Benny L

very nice indeed.. cant wait for these bloody clouds to piss off so i can have a crack at it myself lol

Clouds grrrr

Quote:

Originally Posted by lacad01

Wow, that's a beauty

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Funny enough I was up at 5AM this morning and was good to see Orion again

Quote:

Originally Posted by toryglen-boy

excellent !!

i will resist the usual "good focus, excellent tracking" comments.

but, its a nice vibrant image, with a wide range of colours, and its a cracker

well done.

Its an interesting area.Lots to image.

Quote:

Originally Posted by renormalised

Wonderful image, Greg. A real pearl for the beginning of the M42 season

It's going to be a hard one to beat

Thanks for that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Magnificent image Greg. I really like the colours.

Peter

Thanks Peter. It is always an area of outrageous colours.

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Originally Posted by desler

Simply beautiful greg.

Yes I love this area too.

Darren

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rigel003

Terrific detail in the core. Great image, Greg.

Yes I was happy with the core detail. 10 inches of Tak aperture helps. Plus the seeing was good at 3:20am!

Quote:

Originally Posted by multiweb

Awesome shot Greg! Love the colors you got in the process.

Thanks Marc. I toned down the colours they were a bit over the top in some versions.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matty P

Awesome image Greg. I love the colours you have managed to bring out. Very nice indeed. Excellent detail as well.

Thanks Matty. I was happy to get so much data in the core. That was the combo of 15 and 30 seconds.

Quote:

Originally Posted by renormalised

M42

season open today
$24/pelt

Good one

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hagar

Lovely Greg. The Tak certainly produces the goods. I can't help but wonder if your focus may have been a little off due to the double difraction spikes or was it a result of registration or filter use.

A hard one to beat from my location and it's still a bit low at the hours I keep.

Very nice.

Not sure what the double spikes are. Its not the focus as you can see some really tiny stars there. I wonder if it had something to do with the moon or possibly double stars. Its in the single subs of red and lum that I checked so not a filter or focus. Its also in a galaxy shot I did so perhaps its something to do with the moon.

Yes it is pretty early in the morning. I didn't start this image until 3:20am!

Quote:

Originally Posted by dpastern

That's a good shot! I can't wait for M42 season again

Dave

Its duck season I mean Orion season again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sjastro

I'm not in the market. M42 is an overdone boring object.

Steven

PS Nice image Greg.

I know what you mean Steven but it'd be nice to do a 20 hour version though! Just count your lucky stars we can't reach NGC7000 here!

Quote:

Originally Posted by multiweb

nooo waayyyy!