my best M42 so far......

[Moon monkey]

Hi still not as good as I wanted... But my best yet :)

24 x 50 secs

iso 500

Nikon D200

Darks

All comments and critiques welcome

Cheers MM

[Looking Up]

Nice image, you have the running man as well, the stars are a little overblown making them look a little "hard" but nothing that a bit of tweaking couldn't fix!! Well done!

[jon1000]

What scope did you use? It's a very nice picture.

[Moon monkey]

Thanks I still have lots to learn with my processing

What scope did you use? It's a very nice picture.

The scope is in my sig its an Altair Astro 8"

Cheers MM

[nmoushon]

Great image! Though I'm a bit curious as to why you shot at iso500 and not something higher say 800? Especially with the relatively short subs.

[Digz]

A great start. I remember shooting this for the first time, it really spurs you on to improve and get more and/or better result.

[Moon monkey]

Great image! Though I'm a bit curious as to why you shot at iso500 and not something higher say 800? Especially with the relatively short subs.

The reson for the shortish subs and low iso, is I have bad light polution if i take any longer than 50secs all I get is a bright orange picture.... This will all change soon as I will be using my scope from a very dark site as off 1st march

Thanks for the coments

Cheers MM

[nmoushon]

Ok well that makes complete since then! Can't believe that didn't cross my mind as a possibility. I remember my first time to a truely dark sky...it was breath taking. So many stars I didn't know where I was looking. Had to use gps to find north and stellarium to find constellations lol Good luck!