myfirst close m42 finally

[turbotim]

After weeks of cloudy skys, waiting for adapters, and then the mount not powering up, and imaging the wrong object. I finally bagged m42, and had to cut it short cause the clouds came in! This to me is simply amazing maybe not to other people,but to me its exciting cause i took the pic! So thanks fellow stargazers because i couldnt of done this without you! Its 7lights 9darks 25seconds each put in deep sky stacker and back round is darkend a tiny bit, because i didnt want to lose the neblosity. I cant wait to do longer exposures! Shot at 1600 iso at prime focus no filter!

[Matt Scunthorpe]

Thats a very good image.

I hope i can produce stuff as good as this when i start astrophotography. Getting an RA motor drive for xmas, so can do some decent exposure time rather than a few seconds

[Auntystatic]

in dss try upping the saturation to 20-25 to give you the colour back, good start though

[turbotim]

Heres it with some color i didnt up the saturation i just messed with the curves, But i will on my next attempt thank you aunty static and matt.

[turbotim]

Thats a very good image.

I hope i can produce stuff as good as this when i start astrophotography. Getting an RA motor drive for xmas, so can do some decent exposure time rather than a few seconds

U will do great pictures as long as u dont give up no matter how hard it gets, believe in yourself!

[Pete Presland]

well done! not too bad at all, the first image's colour is a better reflection on what you should aiming for. what length were the exposures?

[toxic]

great image

[paul j]

Great first image well done.

[paul j]

Great first image well done.