M42 great Nebula & NGC1977 Running Man Nebula

[George]

January 17th 2010

Had a clear slot for a couple of hours on Sunday night so grabbed some M42 (my first this season) quite misty so LP was worse than usual so I limited shots to 45 seconds, this was OK for the core but has limited the outer nebulosity, still an image is an image in these spartan times for me ......here's the result.

71 x 45sec subs

31 Darks

31 Flats

31 bias

ISO800 ED80 & Modified Canon 1000D with CLS Filter

Currently have a backlog of nearly 5gb of data due to naff flats, this is the first image of the backlog I have processed

[geoff_k]

That is a superb image.

I haven't done hardly any Deep Sky Imaging this year, but I don't think I need to when I can look at and admire great images like yours.

Geoff

[philj]

Thats nice George, I like the detail around the trapezium.

Philj

[prokyon]

Great work, George!

I like the colors, and 71 subs, wow!

cheers

werner

[ollypenrice]

Good result! You have quite a bit of faint nebulosity in the outer part despite limiting the time on the subs. I can't help thinking you could have got a bit more with longer subs and shot some shorts for the trapezium. Is the LP really that bad? This looks great.

Olly

[ncjunk]

Nice pic and very well presented/framed

[Tim]

Nice shot George, nice to see you taking some pics

Olly, we've had loads of misty skies lately, really poor transparency, makes skyglow much worse it seems.

[Euan]

Great shot George

I like the frame as well, looks great