My first shots at M42

Thanks! I had to stay up til 4 am for that shot waiting for Orion to enter the visible sky from my back garden!

Well worth the wait, a beautiful natural looking shot!

Keith.

Thanks Keith. The other half was not too impressed when I stumbled into bed at about 5am thought lol

Good level of detail so far, the Trapezium is a nightmare to capture and add to an image though, I already have a significant amount of HA data for M42 just waiting for some clear night. M42 is visibile for me from about 11pm onwards at the moment. my last image of M42 is here:

www.flickr.com/photos/30345959@N08/54141...et-72157608426952414

This time I will be imaging much higher resolution with the 8" RC, I am already impressed with how much data was captured through the HA filter

My advice for you on this object is to take shorter exposures too, this will bring out the detail of the trapezium, you can then layer mask in photoshop to add that region to your image

Simon

Thanks for the advice there, I was wondering why I wasn't getting so much detail in the Trapezium. That is a truly excellent image Simon! Congratulations!
I am still very much learning at this stage, so all advice is GREATLY appreciated

Attached is my 14x5min in HA, this was using a 12nm HA Filter, was using my AT8RC Scope for this