My 2nd Orion and pleased

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Hi folks,

I captured the Orion Nebula for the 2nd time last week in the hope of improving on the first attempt. This time I was armed with a Light Pollution filter and Bahtinov mask and boy was I surprised by the improvement. Firstly I managed to get the focus bang on from I can see and secondly the LP filter bought out all the colours in the Nebula which I now see had been washed out previously by the moon and light pollution. The finished pic is 20 x 1 min sub but I messed up on the darks so there are some hot pixels.

As always I would really appreciate some feedback especially on the processing side but I do feel like i have made a big leap and am very excited!

Ive attached the first and 2nd attempt for comparison.

Thanks

Stuart