Widefield M42

[Doc]

Guys this is only my second attemp.

First failed miserably......

13x5

17x15

9x10

5x20

14x10 darks

What do you think?

Actually if you enlarge you can see nebulosity.

[barkis]

No failure with this one Doc.

A classic sight of the Hunter, well framed, and nice tight star too.

Great looking picture.

Ron.

[Tim]

Coming on a treat Doc.

Like you, I get that orange glow at the bottom of the pics, but a free program called Pixinsight LE will remove that for you, and give you a flatter background. Once you have that, you can pull out a lot more detail and fainter stars without worrying about the LP gradient.

I took a couple of hundred shots just like this on holiday, you have inspired me to get them stacked Thanks

[Psychobilly]

Nicely Done Doc...

As TJ said tackle the gradient and you'll get a lot more out of the image...

Thats far better than my attempts at a widefield orion... I'm struggling to balance exposure against trailing with the 50mm f1.8 I think it may be a bit too "long" to allow any decent sub lenght unguided.

Can you post a jpeg straight after stacking for a little play

Billy...

[Doc]

Here Billy.

Any tutorials on this gradient thing you and Tj talk about.

Thanks guys.