M42, Orion, Horsehead

[Photosbykev]

M42 Orion wide field with horsehead and flame nebulas. Full frame on a stock Canon 5D MkIV camera and WO61 refractor with 61A flattener and IDAS-D2 filter.

Mounted on a belt modded HEQ5 Pro, controlled with EQMod and PHD2, data capture with APT

A few pixels have been trimmed around the edges to remove the dithering edges.

Very basic late night processing from 30 x 240 second and 30 x 30 second lights, plus flats and bias frames, stacked in APP and processed in PixInsight

Size: 5.25 x 3.41 deg
Radius: 3.129 deg
Pixel scale: 3 arcsec/pixel

[davew]

Nice colours, tight stars, loads of dust and well controlled Trap. Perfect,

Dave.

[Davey-T]

Excellent image Kev, keep up the good work 

Dave