Second try at M42

[pluto (Hugh)]

A second try at M42, taken around midnight last night near South Head in Sydney. Pretty happy with this considering heaps of light pollution, bad seeing, bright moon and M42 was still low in the sky.
5DmkII + ED80 + EQ5
~8 x 45sec @ ISO 1600
~8 x 45sec @ ISO 3200
~8 x 45sec @ ISO 6400
~8 x 45sec @ ISO 12800
+ darks and some pretty bad flats, all chucked into DSS then processed in Lightroom.
Probably went a bit too far with the processing but I wanted to bring out as much as I could.
Higher res one on my blog: www.hughca.com

[Larryp (Laurie)]

You're going great, Hugh!

[Andy01 (Andy)]

That looks great, nice work!

[pluto (Hugh)]

Thanks guys, I've learned a lot this week, can't wait to get to somewhere dark soon!

[Pinwheel (Doug)]

I would be happy with that result. It's hard to find any fault with it.. Well done!