Anweniel Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Yeah Im sure everyone has seen about all they can handle of The Great Orion Nebula, but opted for an easier to find target for my second tippytoe into AP. I know its also not a great capture and the processing is way over done but any comments/suggestions greatly appreciated.Mount: Skywatcher Supertrak (Motorised Alt-azi)Telescope: Megrez 90Camera: Canon 1000D (unmodded) @ ISO 800Lights: 6x6s 10x20s 17x30s Flats x30Darks 3x6s 3x20s 3x30sBias x21M42.tif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickK Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Great start with Alt-Az!I think a little more focus should make the central trap stars smaller in diameter and it will help pull out the detail of the nebula. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digz Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Thats a pretty good image and goes to show what can be achieved with an alt-az mount! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anweniel Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 Thanks for the comments, I suspected that the focus had shifted. Was late coming home and with Winter disappearing and the prospect of a clear night wanted to take the opportunity for imaging orion before it passed over my neighbours rooftop.In the excitement of anticipation obviously curtailed sufficient cool down time.May try for more data tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anweniel Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 Ok had another quick play, adding a further 3x 1min exposures that I thought had overblown the trapezium massively but hopefully the shorter subs have saveed me a little??Also tweaked the saturation and a more subtle histogram stretch.Mono and Colour version (hopefully this appears more natural colouration?)As always comments/advice appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anweniel Posted February 26, 2012 Author Share Posted February 26, 2012 A quick retry during brief breaks in the cloud last thursday.The idea was to reframe to see if I could get anything out of the running man - I think this has been achieved although due to those annoying clouds I did not capture much in the way of light frames. Also still getting to grips with processing the stack and to get the fainter parts the noise is really getting more evident :/ Also in doing so I've blown out the trap massively.All comments/advice/scruntiny appreciated as always Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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