A New Years Eve Orion

[Bagginsies]

New Years Eve was spent with the family and since the skies were clear I decided to set the scope and camera up and pointed it towards Orion. Managed to get 40 light frames of Orion @ 290mm. Below is a single frame of 30 seconds. I have put the single frame up because the stacked images do not show any colour and I am still to figure out Photoshop and how to bring the colour etc out to make the image look better. Still very happy with my single image 

Wishing you all a Happy New Year!

[Bagginsies]

An updated image. 

40 light frames @ 30s 290mm

20 darkframes

10 bias

iso1600 @ f6.3

edited in Photoshop.

[JohnSadlerAstro]

Hi,

Really cool image! Thanks for posting. I want to get the Orion Neb., but my lens only goes up to 200mm, so it's just not big enough to show up much.

John

[Steve Ward]

Nice starter sir ... 

There is loads more detail in there to be dragged out , a great starting point for Photoshop is Doug's set of tutorials on YouTube here ....  https://www.youtube.com/user/namregd/videos

I took the liberty of giving you shot a brief and clumsy tweak to give you an idea of what lurks beneath ... 

Stretching JPEGs is not ideal so you should get much better results sing the original stacked TIFF.

 

[Bagginsies]

Nice starter sir ... 

There is loads more detail in there to be dragged out , a great starting point for Photoshop is Doug's set of tutorials on YouTube here ....  https://www.youtube.com/user/namregd/videos

I took the liberty of giving you shot a brief and clumsy tweak to give you an idea of what lurks beneath ... 

Stretching JPEGs is not ideal so you should get much better results sing the original stacked TIFF.

bothsbs.jpg

Thanks Steve,

I am finding out that one of the biggest tricks now I have converted to the 'Darkside' is the post processing! I have only just got Photoshop CC (2 days ago) and have been using Elements for only a few months so am still getting to grips with curves and haven't long figured out star masks; and there was me thinking all I needed to do was take a picture LOL. At the moment my head is a mess with idea's from all the tutorials, but just need to get them organised. At the moment no 2 images are the same, but I am sure with practice I will get there ;-) 

I always shoot in raw (CR2), save the stack as .tif then edit and save as .png for upload.