Another Attempt at M42

[Davide Simonetti]

I've been playing around with this image of the Orion Nebula (M42) for a few days now, trying to get as much of the gas cloud as possible to come through while keeping the colours as accurate as I can. It still isn't quite perfect but I reckon it's as good as I can get it at the moment after following some of the very helpful tips given to me here. I added another 78 light frames, put in a luminance layer and blended three versions. Data: 169 x 15 second exposures at 3200 ISO, 14 x dark frames and 12 flat frames. Processed in Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop CS6.