Orion

[Paul Holdsworth]

Hi all, I've only just got round to processing just over 2 hours I got on the Orion nebula last week. This is a blend of 10 second, 1 minute and 3 minute subs stacked in APP and processed in pixinsight. Even though I've being doing astro photography for 3 years it's actually only the second time I've imaged it. I think even though this one isn't exactly how I would like it it's a huge improvement on my original 3 years ago and for me that's half the fun of the hobby. Looks like I need to do another darks library ( one year old) as there's some amp glow top right that wasn't completely removed. 

Wishing everyone a really good Christmas 🌲 

Cheers Paul 

[MartinB]

A lovely rendition Paul and nice HDR processing.  I noticed quite a high level of green in the background which was also creeping into the trapezium area.  I applied a correction using HLVG in PS

[Paul Holdsworth]

Thanks Martin for your comments and for taking the time to run it through HLVG. You're right when I look at it again I should have used a reduced level of scnr as one of the final steps. 

Cheers

Paul