m42

[skywatcher1701]

here is about 30 mins worth of data, thanks to my mate gavin and madjohn for there help in processing the image

[madjohn]

Thats a good image Neil, considering it's among one of your first serious efforts:icon_salut:, M42 is a very hard object to do well because of the dynamic range of brightnesses, your data as you can see has a lot of info, despite the light pollution in there.

I used the 'dust and scratchs' filter method of light pollution removal a couple of times and upped the saturation a tad, Noel carboni's tools, and noise ninja was also applied.

As a matter of interest can you give us how many subs, ISO settings etc?

See you Weds night, John

[skywatcher1701]

I did 6 5 min subs using contrast boster filter no darks iso 800 nikon d40

[shaunster]

Looks very nice indeed

The stars look very nice and have great colour I think, well done

[Doug]

Hi

That is a great image love the colours, well done

Doug

Essex

[Digz]

Great effort. Maybe a little tweak to the framing next time and your onto a winner.

[peter shah]

very nice and great for the short exposure

[cloudbuster]

nice colours!

[skywatcher1701]

thanks for the comments, i will try and add more data to this at some point in the near future but with the moon getting closer to full, it will have to wait, maybe at kelling in a few weeks??? once again thanks

[Tim]

No stopping you now Neil

[skywatcher1701]

thanks all, but if anyone has any advice to give it will be most welcome

TJ pm sent

[rocketandroll]

That's lovely mate :-)

Better than my first attempt :-)

I'm well impressed it's got so much detail and isn't burnt out in the centre with 5min subs at ISO 800. Mine was starting to burn out the trapezium at 30 seconds at ISO 800 :-)

Maybe try one with a lot of shorter subs, maybe try ISO 400 too? No idea if it'll improve it a lot but it'd be interesting to see the difference in the results.

Ben