M42.. last chance for me..

[Coco]

As the winter knocks on Ive so much to try and complete.. here is a stack of 20 x 60 second subs and EOS + 100-300 @ 300seconds f/4 ( ISO 800)

No Flats or darks... all images stacked in DSS and stretched in Pixinsight and CS5

The image is cropped to around 50% of te original..

critique always welcome...

[Beyond_Vision]

Well done for finding a gap in the clouds Guy. Is M42 going to be blocked from view from your obsy? That would be a real shame as it's the best time for it over the coming month. The focus looks a little off (or perhaps tracking) and did you get any darks done as this would help with the noise.

Regards

Kevin

[Dave S]

As Kevin says try some darks. You can generate these at any time and add them to the mix.

You could probably do a bit more photoshop work and mess with curves and such to drag out more detail and perhaps a touch of sharpening. Just try stuff out till it looks right for you.

Dave...

[namreg]

Well done for finding a gap in the clouds indeed. Can't remember the last time I saw Orion - or anything else for that matter - but it was definitely last year!

Some shorter subs and the use of layer masking in photoshop would take out the overexposed core of M42 Guy, and it's a useful technique to learn (having just learnt it myself!)