M42, M43 & NGC1977

Hey all,

Got myself a 30D a while back so am trying the DSOs again (& sticking to an easy one for now . I must say I'm impressed by the camera, it seems more sensitive than the Sac10 I was using last year.

So here's the Orion Nebular and Running Man from Friday. I never did capture the running man with the Sac10 so it was a surprise that it came out here.



Megrez90 on ASGT, guided with PHD & B&W webcam through a WO66 & GPUSB.
20x120 sec for main nebula & NGC1977
30x30 sec for core
20x2 sec for trap
Each stack created in Nebulosity
Curves, levels & merged the three resultant stacks in Photoshop.

Larger version here
farm3.static.flickr.com/2127/2239882037_05b1ca7765_o.jpg

Cheers,

Trev

Fantastic image Trevor. Pardon me for asking, but would it take much to create a tutorial on the processing involved in this image? Deep space photo processing is wildly different from standard photos and to create an image like this is currently beyond my limit, even though I can use photoshop ( to an extent). if it would be too much work then no worries.

Lovely job Trevor, beautiful detail.

Keith..

lovely picture there....super colours init

Nice, peaceful, and serene up there judging by the mood in your picture...

:shock:

that is an exceptionally beautiful image, i congratulate you trev.

whoever said you couldnt get images at home,as they appear in magazines? that matches a lot of what id consider a great astro photo.

can i ask, what dpi is the original at?