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Default M42 (The last one I promise) - 6th February 2010, 07:39 PM
Gosh over a month since I was last able to DSO image, time flies. With a limited window of clear sky last night of about 2 hours I set about getting more data on my m42 which I started in January.


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OTB 102ED with WO Mk4 Flattener, 1000D modded, 3 and a bit hours of 4 minute ISO 800 subs, composited with 10x 1 minute and 10 x 30 second subs.

Processing was (as ever) a trial but having 3 hours worth of data
helps. No sharpening and just a tad of cropping

This is it now, I must image something else now.

Hope you like it

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Default Re: M42 (The last one I promise) - 6th February 2010, 08:51 PM
Beautiful Phil , well worth the time spent

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Default Re: M42 (The last one I promise) - 6th February 2010, 09:10 PM
Really nice Phil, ticks all the boxes for me, well captured and processed....what's next?

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Default Re: M42 (The last one I promise) - 6th February 2010, 09:23 PM
Like that a lot good job
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Default Re: M42 (The last one I promise) - 6th February 2010, 09:26 PM
Very nice.

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Default Re: M42 (The last one I promise) - 6th February 2010, 09:31 PM
Great image, very smooth.
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Default Re: M42 (The last one I promise) - 6th February 2010, 09:47 PM
its really nice, am thinking of starting taking my own pics, but to be honest i dont know where to start and what i would need lol. al have to look into it more.
but a really nice pic

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Default Re: M42 (The last one I promise) - 7th February 2010, 01:01 PM
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Really nice Phil, ticks all the boxes for me, well captured and processed....what's next?

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A nice simple star cluster I reckon Rob

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Default Re: M42 (The last one I promise) - 7th February 2010, 01:08 PM
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A nice simple star cluster I reckon Rob

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Nothing simple about star clusters...easier to capture, but tricky to process I find

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Default Re: M42 (The last one I promise) - 7th February 2010, 04:07 PM
Very nicely captured Phil with a good amount of the fainter outer areas showing up.

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Default Re: M42 (The last one I promise) - 7th February 2010, 04:22 PM
Hi

Yes lots of fainter stuff coming through and never tire of this region

I would say though m42 does seem to be a bit one colour , did it get lost in translation

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Default Re: M42 (The last one I promise) - 7th February 2010, 04:25 PM
Very nice Phil. Loads of detail and the colours are amazing. Time well spent if you ask me, and I never tire of this object.

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