M42 and Running Man December 2011

[carastro]

Done over 2 nights from light polluted skies (near SE London)

Modified Canon 450D CLs filter, captured in APT

15-12-11 8 x 5mins and 10 x 30secs 800 ISO

19-12-11 18 x 5mins 800 ISO

Skywatcher Evostar ED80 Pro

Guided with ST 80, PHD (dithering in APT)

DSS and PS CS3

Very tricky to process even aside from having to layer and mask it.

Carole

[WayBig]

Brilliant. This is the first image in which I've clearly seen a running man in the running man nebula. Thanks for posting

[Adrian]

Beautiful... Looks more like a drunken man dancing to me

[ollypenrice]

Very fine Carole and from an LP site. Wow. Delicate and natural processing.

To me the man looks like a Hurrying Homer Simpson...

Olly

[carastro]

Many thanks Chris, Adrian and Olly.

Carole

[Spikey]

Hi Carole, very nice colours and you've captured a fair old amount of the whispy stuff.

Your modded Canon is certainly doing the business.

[carastro]

Thanks Spikey. Yes the Modding really made a lot of difference.

Carole

[polydoros]

Carole, the first thing my eye's went to was the ruunning man. Fantastic.

You got me thinking now to mod the 1000d.

Poly

[carastro]

Thanks Poly. You won't regret modding your 1000D for astro work, I found the camera captures much more data in general since the mod.

Carole

[Vic&Al]

Well done lovely image!

[rocketandroll]

Looking lovely Carole!!

Hope mine looks half as smooth as that by the time I've got some more data for it :-)

Ben

[psemil]

Very nice picture Carole.

[Looking Up]

Nice one Carole, well processed and good round stars!(unlike mine!!)

Spencer

[SJJ]

Very nice image Carole. Its good to see what can be achieved under light polluted skies. Gives us all hope!

[carastro]

Wow, lots of replies. Many thanks every-one.

Carole

[cloudbuster]

nice one, yet again carole! happy xmas to u also!

cheers

bob

[carastro]

Thanks Bob, Happy Christmas to you too.

Carole