M-42: The Great Orion Nebula in Narrow Band

[nandopg]

This is an image that I always had curiosity to do, M-42 in narrow band. I know about the existence of some dark nebula embedded to M-43. In this image I think I was able to capture this dark right in the "junction" of M-42 and M-43. The presence of this dark nebula makes M-42 an even more amazing object for research.

The image took 17 days to be completed because of the weather conditions. The capture scheme was:
Ha: 12x900sec bin 1x1
O3: 15x900sec bin 1x1
S2: 20x900sec bin 1x1

Bias, darks and flats applied.

Pre-processing and processing in Pixinsight.
HDR assemby in EasyHDR standalone version.

[ollypenrice]

We rarely see a tricolour M42 in narrowband. Very exciting.

Olly

[wimvb]

Great image with superb processing. And, as Olly said, unusual in nb. But it clearly works.

[gorann]

Woow!

You produced something very unusual and pleasing to the eye there Fernando! The colours are just perfect. Would look really nice as a poster on a wall.

What equipment did you use?

[gorann]

PS.

Could you post the three mono images? Would be interesting to see where the Ha, OIII and SII regions are.

[nandopg]

On 15/09/2017 at 12:02, ollypenrice said:

We rarely see a tricolour M42 in narrowband. Very exciting.

Olly

Thanks for the appreciation. You are a great person.

14 hours ago, gorann said:

PS.

Could you post the three mono images? Would be interesting to see where the Ha, OIII and SII regions are.

Sure, I just could not uploaded them in the same scale as the original, due to their size

On 15/09/2017 at 18:05, wimvb said:

Great image with superb processing. And, as Olly said, unusual in nb. But it clearly works.

Thank you very much for the kind comment.

[gorann]

Great, very nice images on their own. Is that Ha, OIII and SII from top to bottom?

[nandopg]

3 hours ago, gorann said:

Great, very nice images on their own. Is that Ha, OIII and SII from top to bottom?

Thanks again!! As for the order of the masters, you are right: ha, o3 and s2, from top to bottom,

Best Regards,

Fernando

[adamphillips]

wow. I think you've convinced me to do this in narrowband. much of the color looks natural, just with extras added.

[alan4908]

Very impressive, I must investigate the HDR program that you used to construct the images, it has worked very well.

Alan

[nandopg]

On 17/09/2017 at 00:54, adamphillips said:

wow. I think you've convinced me to do this in narrowband. much of the color looks natural, just with extras added.

Thanks!!

Give it a try. Don't forget to let me know about the outcome of your job.

Have a good one!!

Fernando

On 17/09/2017 at 05:16, alan4908 said:

Very impressive, I must investigate the HDR program that you used to construct the images, it has worked very well.

Alan

Thank you Alan.

As for the HDR program it is the Photomatix Tone Mapping PRO.  It is a wonderful  program for HDR and tone mapping.  I use this same program for tone mapping in my solar images.

Best Regards,

Fernando

[Ben Whittle]

This looks great. What combination did you map the Ha Sii Oiii as to get that palette? Certainly looks more interesting than the standard SHO scheme for this target. 

[teoria_del_big_bang]

That is superb 🙂 

Definitely one of the best images of this target I have seen and there is a lot of them 🙂 

Steve

[tooth_dr]

1 hour ago, Ben Whittle said:

This looks great. What combination did you map the Ha Sii Oiii as to get that palette? Certainly looks more interesting than the standard SHO scheme for this target. 

The poster hasn’t been on here for 3 years so mightn’t reply!

[teoria_del_big_bang]

5 minutes ago, tooth_dr said:

The poster hasn’t been on here for 3 years so mightn’t reply!

I noticed it was quite an old thread but the OP was posted just before I joined and had not seen it so glad it got resurrected, a shame the originator hasn't been on here for so long.

Steve