M42

[paul11]

Hi all I managed to get a few minutes on this before the clouds arrived. I took this with my home made 200mm 5.4 newt,i made the mistake of not checking the collimation before I started and it was out. This is an HDR from 5,15,30 and 45 sec images, it’s the full image taken with a DSLR and no filters, I’m still very much a beginner at this so all CC welcome,,,,Paul.

[moocher]

Very nice Paul. Not an easy target to get right, such a vast range of brightness levels...

Alan:)

[Jupiter Martin]

thats nice

[Taff]

Weldone Paul' That's a nice capture with you.Mark

[jnp]

Good effort, especially if collimation was out. It's encouraging to see some results from a DIY scope. I might even post some of mine.

John

[MartinB]

You've obviously put that scope together well Paul.

[barkis]

Nice result from your scope Paul.

Is it via prime focus, or projection.?

Ron.

[Tom OD]

Well done, home made is sometihng to be proud of. Add as much time (Data) as you can to the stack and it'll get better and better.

Tom.

[paul11]

Thanks for the comments guys, this was shot at prime focus,,,,,Paul.