First Nebula(guess which one)Yeah. M42

[saturn5]

After waiting for weeks for a clear calm night i finally got my first nebula,even though M42 is bit close to the rooftops and street lights i gave it a go,LP was terrible.

As for the processing,well i couldn't make up my mind if i wanted bright or subtle and probably ended up somewhere in between.At least i'm up and running(man) and this has seriously boosted my enthusiasm,so much so that

i stayed out till 4.30 this morning,got the Leo Triplet but my HH was a disaster,got the flame nebula ok though.

30 mins worth of subs from 45sec to 90sec,any longer and everything was

ORANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Canon 350d ,Orion Europa 150 and HEQ5.

[jgs001]

Nicely captured S5

[steve51450]

nice M42 lots of nice detail

[RobH]

Good work...great feeling isn't it when your first M42 comes in!

It's a very smooth image. You did the right thing going for lots of subs.

How did you combine the different exposures?

Cheers

Rob

[Psychobilly]

Very smooth S5

I am sure with all those subs you shioul be able to do somethign withthe Trap region... you might need to use a single image as a layer of a short stack even...

Billy...

[Sam]

Great shot S5, nicely defined neb.

[saturn5]

Thanks guys....Rob,i used Deep Sky Stacker.

A question regarding the dreaded light pollution...........are there any filters

for digital cameras or indeed visual ones that can be used for imaging?

I find it really annoying that i've spent ages aligning my pier mount adapter

to enable me to get 5mins unguided and not able to get more than 90sec because of the glow from the street lights.

Objects overhead are ok but anything lowish looks like a tango advert. :laughing9:

[glennbech]

A very good choice of first target; it looks amazing in single exposure shots just after 10-30 seconds. It sounds like you should invest in a Light Pollution filter. In the long run you need to be able to do 3-8 minute exposures to catch the fainter nebulas.

I have a 200m Newt, a Multu purpose Coma Corrector (MPCC) is also going to be a good investment later. It will remove the "bean shaped" stars in the corners of the image.

Great first result!

[LostNSpace]

A nice capture saturn.....

Mark

[gary1968]

Very nice S5, you should be pleased with that.

Gary

[saturn5]

Thanks Mark,Gary.Yes i'm happy with it but hopefully in a few months i wont be as i will have improved a bit but with the current weather it may be some time before i get out again