Webcam Orion Nebula...WIP!

[Quatermass]

Thats a great shot for a webcam when you get an slr camera you will be well ahead.

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[pjac]

That is a stunning result. Would you mind posting a couple of the individual single exposure images that went into this for comparison?

Last spring I took some images of the Trapezium with my SkyWatcher 130mm and the XBox Live Vision webcam. Earlier today I was looking for the images, but can't find them. I'm quite curious how my single images compare - from memory I just had the four stars resolved, but wasn't really aware of the M42 background.

[pjac]

I couldn't find my old Orion M42 / Trapezium images using the Xbox webcam, so took some more. Here's a single shot (cropped and annotated), see blog post for the original uncroped version. Note this was with the original red glass filter, and less than ideal image capture software:

I suspect (hope) that teh_orph's raw single shots from the PS3 Eye Camera were much nicer.

[Russe]

Who has managed to take FLATS with a webcam and how have you done it?