Another M42

[3ggman]

When I got home last night I noticed Orion creeping up the crisp, clear night sky. With weather the its been over the last few weeks I couldnt let this chance go even if the moon was still very bright.

Details are:

1000D Modified, IKI 70mm APO, CG4 (unguided)

22 x 90secs subs

ISO400

10 x Darks

No Flats.

I am quite happy with the result for such a short exposure, it does have some bad gradient, my trail has run out on pixinsight (must resist purchasing, for now anyway) if anyone would like to run some pixinsight magic on it that would be great. (I can email a higher res image

[gfletcher]

You should be happy with that.

Well done !

Graham

[oldfruit]

Stunning, Can`t beleive how much nebulosity is visible, almost fills the picture.

[3ggman]

So I decided to hell with it and I bought Pixinsight. First results are in. Here is the new version of the above image.

I think its a much flatter image, less noise and a little more detail.

C&C?

[Steve 1962]

Hiya Johnny

Lovely image - I'm in the same boat as you with Pixinsight - just waiting for Santa to deliver!

Steve

[Fay]

Great image from such short exposures.

[harry page]

Hi

Yes a lot better , got rid of them horrible gradients and the colour is better

Harry

BTW you will love Pixinsight

[3ggman]

Yea its a good program and a lot less painstaking than photoshop. I am still messing with the image, I think I will look at it again tomorrow and see what me thinks.

thanks btw.

[Trevor-Austin]

Got a trial of it and I'm not very patient, it's not exactly intuitive! Which always puts me off software:)

Any quick and easy walkthroughs anybody is aware of?

[harry page]

Hi

You might or might not have seen my newbie vids on pixinsight

http://www.harrysastroshed.com/pixinsighthome.html

Might help

Harry

Got a trial of it and I'm not very patient, it's not exactly intuitive! Which always puts me off software:)

Any quick and easy walkthroughs anybody is aware of?

[3ggman]

Hi

You might or might not have seen my newbie vids on pixinsight

http://www.harrysastroshed.com/pixinsighthome.html

Might help

Harry

I can't speak highly enough about these, simple and very straight forward to follow, a credit to you harry.

[Trevor-Austin]

I'll give them a try, seem very well respected and I'm not achieving much at all without it!

Just don't like software I have to be taught on though:)