M42 & 43

Hi all, I just signed on here as a member and offer this image of The Great Orion Nebula.


Orion ED80
Losmandy G11/Gemini Unguided
Canon 350D Hutech modified
32 - 120 sec subs @ ISO 400
10 - 120 sec darks
Converted, aligned and combined in Images Plus
Tweaked in PS-CS

Woodwizard (aww, c'mon, what's your real name ) - that's a lovely image. I don;t think I've seen an image with that FOV - they are usually close-ups or really wide-field. That's a nice intermediate shot.

The detail and colours are really good too and you've kept the nebulosity well.

Funnily enough, I saw a post on another board from a guy with a 60mm refractor and a DSI II - I thought 'these are gonna be OK" - they blew my socks off. I must find the link and post it.

So, keep them coming!

Dave

ps - welcome!

Just added real name to signature... It's Tom, but everyone calls me Woody anyways.

Hi Tom,

Welcome To the boards.

That is an absolutely stunning image. Thanks for sharing with us.

Great image!

I couldn't help to try and play with the image slightly in PS. Hope you don't mind.
I set it to "Autolevels" which helped improve the contrast a touch as the dark areas seemd a little grey, and I tried to bring out a little bit more of the nebulae. I would be interested whether you thought this was any better.


However, don't get me wrong, if I were the person who took the original image, I'd be extremely pleased as it's a fab shot!

Clear skies,

I have to agree Micheal that it looks better. I have a better image but i had some rotation problems when images were combined in Images Plus. Images were taken on two different night and the orientation wasn't close. I would have had to do alot of cropping to fix. I'm still on the learning curve on the processing end in Images Plus.