Orion nebula with a ZS66

[Hawklord]

I wasn't going to post this one, but then it seemed a shame since this is with a 66mm scope (which is most often used for guiding) and an unmodified Canon EOS450D. Light pollution is dealt with by a CLS filter. Just over an hour's worth of 3 minute subs at ISO1600. Guided using phd on my GPDX mount.

[Quatermass]

My favorite sight in the night sky. Lovely image with lots of nice detail well done I would be very happy with that one.

[Coco]

very nice.. plenty of nebulosity with an unmodified Canon EOS450D... running man look superb.

[PortableAstronomer]

That's a great little scope itsn't it, especially for wide field work. Just shows aperture isn't everything.

I hope you don't mind me doing this, but I've taken your JPG result that you posted above and removed some background gradients, flattened the dynamic range, done some wavelet processing and enhanced the background. The core is a bit saturated because of the massive amount of contrast in this object and there was data lost on the JPG image. I think you could get even better results with slightly less agressive stretching the intensity with curves, less of a brighness stretch but a smaller gamma value to enhance the darker regions better.

Thanks for sharing.

[Fay]

Very good for an unmodded camera

Fay

[Hawklord]

Thank you. It looks much better. I seem to get plagued by gradients.

My processing was done with an old version of Pixinsight LE and then PS elements 5. Luckily I do have Noels actions which help a bit. Planning to invest in full version of Pixinsight very soon, and get the DBE tool etc!

Cheers

[Taff]

Hi Wayne' what a nice picture great colours there of the nebula and NGC1977.Mark