M42 under Full Moon Skies

[Roy Foreman]

What do you do if your thing is deep sky imaging and the first decent run of clear nights in nearly 5 months occurs under a full moon ?

And what do you do if all this happens when you have a new camera to try out ?

You go for the only object likely to shine through the glare - good old Orion Nebula !

Started imaging as soon as it was reasonably dark and used a dual band filter to hopefully get better results.

Vital stats are as follows :-

16" F/4.5 Reflector

ZWO 6200 MC Pro full Frame OSC

Optolong L-enhance Dual Band Filter

20 x 30sec at gain 414

20 x 30 sec at gain 305

Sensor Temperature -25C

I'm reasonably happy with it apart from the star colours !

[kirkster501]

Well done, very nice picture.

[Roy Foreman]

Thank you ! In reality I wasn't expecting it to turn out well at all !