Central Orion

beautiful keith. blow it up to A3 size and frame that baby over the fireplace.

What mount did you use to take this with ?

Fantastic pic. Look at all those nebulae.

Thanks all, I spent a lot of time on this one, thankfully it paid off

What software are you using to process?

Dogstar, I used Photoshop 7 to process it

Brilliant image Keith! Just a thought about the blue colour. Would it be a light pollution gradient which affect wide field images more than narrow field ones? Ron Wodaski devotes an entire 24-page section of his book to removing Light Pollution Gradients using Photoshop.

Gordon, it could be a light pollution gradient as there were a lot of cars passing by with headlights on from the right hand side (my backgarden is really dark ) I know how to remove a gradient, but this blue still stuck

What mount did you use to take this with ?

fguihen, Just on my Celeston C8 SCT with a tripod mount

Keith..

Lovely picture...every time i see orion it gets better an better

every time i see orion it gets better an better

Couldnt agree more. I observed it a couple of nights ago using a couple of different filters from my kit. I got a more defined look at the shape to it without as much nebulosity brighness.