Orions Dust

[mackiedlm]

Orion is so low for me that even right now, when he's in exactly the right part of the sky, I still cant get more than 6 hours on target. Taken with the drastic lack of clear sky it means that my plans to get some long integration and a mosaic of this area are looking likely to be a multi-year, rather than a multi-night mission. So I'm processing piecemeal as its likely to be at least 3 weeks before I can add to this.

I wanted to try to bring out some of the background dust which abounds in this area so it was processed accordingly - so the Orion nebula is a bit brighter than I'd like, despite careful and judicious masking. The core is a little blown because I only took 3 min exposures. I may take some shorter ones to do HDR if I get back on this target this year,

Its just under 6 hours with the Samyang 135mm, ASI2600mc, L-Pro filter all sitting on the little StarAdventurer GTI.

 

[geeklee]

1 hour ago, mackiedlm said:

I wanted to try to bring out some of the background dust which abounds in this area so it was processed accordingly

Nice one David, the dust and Ha look awesome and a hell of a FOV already.

[Bluemoonjim]

That is a very fine image 

[rodrigol]

Stunning!

[WolfieGlos]

Really nice! 

[Roy Foreman]

I love the area around Orion,  so much going on, and your image captures it nicely. Great work.