Great Orion Nebula - LRGB

[alexbb]

This is another finished target for this season.

I (quite) recently bought a TS Photoline 102 ED with FPL53 which performs surprisingly well for a doublet. So I put it to tests and imaging, in parallel with an older FPL51 AstroProfessional 102 ED doublet.

The blue color correction is much better in the newer TS. I shoot luminance often with both and then take the highlights from the better scope.

For this image I also used some older data that I had available, shot with a 130PDS, but that maybe only made my life more difficult. Not that otherwise I shot data through the refractors in a single panel with reducers/correctors, but also in 2 panels with no reducing correctors. Same about the RGB. Some shorter exposures from the backyard, some from a dark site, most of the G data from a dark site, B and R from home (clouds came in at the dark site) and a lot of other adventures.

But in the end I managed to put them all together and made an image out of them.

You can watch it in full resolution and see other details on astrobin: Great Orion Nebula

Clear skies!

Alex

Edited March 5, 2021 by alexbb
a little sharper on highlights

[Stuf1978]

Great M42 👍

[Rustang]

And that's how to do Orion! 👏👏

[alexbb]

5 hours ago, Stuf1978 said:

Great M42 👍

4 hours ago, Rustang said:

And that's how to do Orion! 👏👏

Thank you both very much!

[MartinB]

Wonderful, right up with the best I have seen of M42

[alexbb]

7 hours ago, MartinB said:

Wonderful, right up with the best I have seen of M42

Thank you, Martin!