My latest M42 attempt

[emyliano2000]

As Orion is not that high in the sky anymore and it goes quickly behind the trees that block my sw view I only managed to do 23 min stacked exposure made out of 2 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, 2 min and 5 min frames at 400 ISO. I did this to try and get the trapezium in the photo. It works but I will definitely need more data and a lot more processing experience. I used dss for stacking and PS and Lightroom for processing.

Emil

[orion25]

Beautiful image, Emil. This is one of my favorite nebulae. You did a wonderful job! 

 

Reggie

[A4Andromeda]

Excellent!

[tomato]

Great job! 

Looks like another winter has passed without me getting a decent image of this nebula, you've done it proud.

[frugal]

That is a beautiful crisp image. One of the things I like about M42 is that so many people photograph it, and they all manage to capture something different each time.

[emyliano2000]

Thank you for the lovely comments. Every time I was going for M42 I wasn't taking any shors exposures and the core was completely blown out but after reading how other people managed to expose the trapezium I thought I would give it a try and see what comes out of it. I'm pretty pleased with the result. Too bad the "cloud nebula" is in the way of the stars and preventing me to capture more data.