Orion's Sword (M42) second go

[jonathancd]

I braved the cold tonight and managed to grab a second go at M42. Colour seems better and background darker. Really happy with this overall.

Grateful for more views and tips.

thanks

Jonathan

Equinox 80

400D

Nexstar SE mount

(click to enlarge)

[ChrisEdu]

That's nice. How did you take it? Was it DSLR connected to scope? How long was the exposure? Tell me more!!!

[jonathancd]

The 400D was at prime focus with the equinox use a 2 inch adapter with a skywatcher LP filter. That is a stack of 10 20 second exposures along with 5 darks. I put it through deep sky stacker then tweaked it a little in photoshop.

Glad you like it.

Jonathan

[ChrisEdu]

Most of that means nothing to me, as I'm not yet an imager. Hoping to get into it sometime soon though, so I can take picturews like that!

[kev 102 42]

very nice indeed when i get all my gear next week i hope my pic is a tiny bit has good as that nice M42 fella.....kev

[Lee]

Excellent image. Had a go at M42 myself last night.

You could try to take longer exposures to bring out some more detail.

Lee.

[Sam]

Great image Jonathan! There even a bit of nebulosity starting come through near the running man.

[ChrisEdu]

Great image Jonathan! There even a bit of nebulosity starting come through near the running man.

I thought that.

[barkis]

Nice neat Image Jonathan. A good job, the dslr is such a useful camera.

Ron.

[Doc]

For just 3 minutes and 20 seconds you have captured alot of detail.

Try a longer time say 30 seconds as field rotation my kick after this and maybe at least 30 subs.

More frames will equal more detail.

Overall it's a great shot.

[Psychobilly]

Nice Image Jonatahn.. if your keeping the subs short because of the mount then your going to just have to take a lot of them to get more any more detail into the image.

Looking very promising though

Billy...

[jgs001]

Nice image Jonathan. Using AltAz as long as you image when the target is low in the sky, but not too far south, you should be able to extend up to nearer a minute. If you can manage it when Orion rises and gets high enough to clear the murk, you may even be able to get up nearer 2 minutes before trailing becomes a problem.

[gary1968]

Nice image mate, keep 'em coming.

Gary