Big bit of sky for Lulu.

[ollypenrice]

Cheers all. Rob, how many frames? Too many!! There's about twenty hours of data all together but some only duplicates itself. (I did M42 at 450mm in 4.5 hours then did a wider version at 328 for this image - so in that case most of the widefield is replaced by the longer focal length image. The base just used 2 panels at 328. The abortive attempt to get Alnilam required a third. Then I added the higher res images over the top. I do have some more Horse in the test Atik 4000 OSC but have not had time to process it yet.

I did get as far as the second belt star, Alnilam, and that looked nice as a composition but the sky quality was not that good so I will go back to it.

Olly

[MikeD]

A masterpiece Olly, worth every second you have put into this....

Stunning work.

Mike.

[Sam]

Fantastic Olly!

[jarbi]

What a beautiful shot Olly ! I envy you for having 20 hours of clear skies for imaging. Are you living in the Provence or in other sunny ( and starry ) place ?

I could have that much imaging time maybe in a half year in Belgium...

[ollypenrice]

Hi Jarbi,

I live all year in Provence where I run an astro holiday place. Lots of clear skies, therefore!

Olly

[Sidney]

Wow, Fantastic image and superb detail:icon_eek:

[MartinB]

I bet you're smiling Olly, that is a stunner. The colour looks so natural, there is a great feel for the dynamic range from the trapezium to areas of dark nebulosity. Just wonderful