Old Friend

[Nebulizer]

Hi All

Return of an old friend :wave:

Experimenting with newly modified 350D

(click to enlarge)

Cheers

Terry

[Viking]

Showed this image to my daughter whose reaction was WOW.

So it has the Wow factor. What is it. It looks like a jellyfish.

Thanks for posting.

John

[barkis]

Never seen M42 like that before. It's certainly striking.

Ron.

[centroid]

That's very nice Terry, a little different, but very nice all the same.

Well done!!

Dave

[Psychobilly]

Indeed a different approach to the processing but a quite amazing effect

Nice one Terry...

Billy...

[Nebulizer]

All comments taken on board, thanks for all.

Explanation:

Original Image taken with 350D (mod) through 10in Skywatcher.

DSS used to stack subs with a result of 24min 58sec exposure. Individual shots were 30s at Iso200,hand guided.

No darks available at this setting, so dropped in thirty at 30s Iso400 !! (Thought I had to do something in the way of darks).

Processing done in PS C3.

Intension was to ignore 'classic' view of M42 and regardless of colour and overall appearance, try to tweek out structural informaton thet I have not been able to do on previous attempts.

I know it looks as though it might be a jellyfish or some unknown species, my wife certainly agrees on that one, but I thought it would be an interesting project.

Comments appreciated.

Cheers all

Terry

[Psychobilly]

The lower ISO's certainly help a lot with getting some decent colour info to play with...

Hand guided very nice

Still cant get over the effect...but like it a lot