A Star is born

Thats excellent...that structure in the nebula is amazing!

Dave.
Is that 114 images stacked or a single exposure??

Dave - 114 stacked images - exposure total was 92 mins. Exposures varied between 10 and 60 seconds due to the breezy conditions.

Cheers

Dave

Wow Dave that really is excellent. I'm really looking forward to this years M42 season:)

Love the detail, even for black and white Dave! Say, think you can do any filtering to pass it through RGB and see a potential colour image?

Seanie.

Seanie - the DSI can do colour without the use of filters but I find that I'm just not up to processing them... The DSI spits out three frames per image (RGB). You need to combine these to produce a colour image of good quality.

What I might do is try the same shot using a Lumicon Ultra High Contrast filter. That should help reduce the star bloat and bring out even more detail in the nebula. I should also give this a go with the ETX70 - it'll give a lovely wide-field shot.

Cheers

Dave