M42 Rework

[mightymonoped]

Having a playday, so thought I'd have another go at this one. Have thrown everything but the kitchen sink at this one. A combination of two separate processed images.

One I liked the colour balance in, the other I liked the stretch and contrast. Ended up registering both, then stripping the stars out of both, merging the 'luminosity' image at 50%, then merging the stars back in to the new combined image. A bit of colour match saturation, slight adjustment of Red in the mix and cropped to finish.

 

All captures done with Skywatcher 80ED & ASI294mc pro using L-Pro filter.

 

Tony

[knobby]

That's a lovely job 👍🏻

[Ceph]

You even got the tricky center on M42 right Nice piece of work

[simmo39]

V nice!