M42 The Great Orion Nebula

[Darth Takahashi]

I guess this is everyone's favorite target at this time of the year. Bright, easy to find and relatively easy to image.

The following was taken with a TOA130F at F7.7 and with a standard Canon 1DMIII, no modifications etc...

(click to enlarge)

I hope you enjoy my latest attempt at imaging this famous nebula

Neil.

[Plastic chicken]

My dream scope!!!! I`d kill for a TOA130!! Oh sorry went of on one there :laughing3: . Thats a nice shot Neil!!!!##

PC

[narrowbandpaul]

great image...

that TOA130 certainly looks great. Havent imaged through it yet.

Do you use a flattener on it?

[barkis]

That's a mighty fine result Neil. Well done sir.

M42 is there to be imaged. It is a beautiful sight, to image and observe.

Would not bother me if there were 100,000 images of it, they will all belong to someone.

Ron.

[MikeD]

Lovely rich colours, nice work.

Mike.

[Tim]

Really nice, especially good for a non modded camera. You can even make out the faint stuff between the Running man and m43

TJ

[Darth Takahashi]

No field flatterer was use, there is a little field curvature but overall it isn't so noticeable. I'm a lucky boy since I have two dream scopes. The TOA130F and the Mewlon M250, working in Japan helps since buying this equipment in Europe is defiantly out of the question.

If you ever visit Japan and Akihabara (10 min from Tokyo), look up a shop called Starbase, its slice of Takahashi heaven at prices that you won't believe! :mrgreen:

[barkis]

Oh, I'll pop over next week. :laughing2: I wish. Must be heaven Allright, even if it's just to look around.

Ron.

[Aza]

Great image!

Especially from an unmodded camera....are you going to get it modded? Made a huge difference to my images.

I have yet to image this area, due to my position, I would need to go mobile

[Dave]

Nice to see someone producing good nebula images without resorting to modding their camera.

Keep up the good work.

[RichieJarvis]

Beautiful image image...

@barkis - but would you be able to visit without buying anything????