matt_baker

M42 Orion Nebula

Celestron 130SLT

Mirror moved 2 inches up the OTA (To achieve prime focus without barlow)

Very light polluted town (Literally a giant sodium light right outside my house)

13 lights, 10 darks @1600 ISO, 15 secs.    3 minutes exposure in total

Stacked in DSS and edited in PixInsight

Only was able to it for a short time because the clouds piled in and I wanted to test out after I extended the mirror

I was wondering what exposure time and iso I should use to capture the Orion Nebula. I have a Celestron 130SLT and a Nikon D3200. I know that this isn't necessarily the best, especially for astrophotography but I did give it a go before and I want to try and improve on the results that i have right now. Here's an example:

Thanks,

Matt

P.S I took 19 light frames and stacked them on autostakkert and did some things in photoshop