Another Orion Nebula, longer exposure this time

[Chris Graham]

Last night it was freezing but before the moon got any higher i snapped a few frames of The Orion Nebula.

Orion 80ED, Canon EOS 350D (unmodded)

14 x 4 min, ISO 400, no LP filter this time.

Flats & Darks

A lot more detail in this image, used the masking tool in Photoshop as found on Astropix to keep some of the core detail. I feel its still a bit bright.

With the last few frames the glare from the moon was effecting the image and anyways the clouds rolled in.

[dazza1639]

Outstanding a truly beautiful image.

[Saso]

Excellent image. Lovely details. Superb.

Saso

[CELESCOPE]

excellent image Chris , really lovely detail , nice and smooth , running man looks great as well ,

Rog

[maroon bells]

blumming hell that is good!

It looks just like it did when I looked throught my telescope at it the other night.

Alright then I'm exagerating a bit.

[geppetto]

That's a great image

Very well done

[Chris Graham]

Cheers everyone, unsure how i managed to post in the wrong forum....hehehe sorry

[SteelRat]

Real nice detail in there Chris - great image 8)

[MartinB]

No that is a beauty Chris, I'm sure you're please cos it's close on perfect. Lovely job with the processing. You mentioned using a mask for the core, do you mean you duplicated the background, applied some more stretch, set the mask to reveal, blocked out the bright bits and adjusted the opacity. Whether or not you did I think that's a great idea. It's hard to control the feather though.

BTW I think the core looks ok. Not to keen on holding the core back too much, tends to look a bit unatural

[Alan D]

Nice one

Alan D

[Vega]

Wow.. very impressive, I like the portrait angle used to catch the neigbouring nebulosity.

Vega

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Hugely impressed with that one. All done perfectly as far as I can tell.

Captain Chaos

[Andrew*]

Wow.. very impressive, I like the portrait angle used to catch the neigbouring nebulosity.

Vega

Don't want to insult your intelligence, but I think you are referring to the "Running Man" nebula at the top of the image, just FYI!

That's a ridiculously brilliant image - I am in Awe (a quaint little town at the coast, to the north of Aberdeen )

Andrew

[Chris Graham]

Tried a reprocess with a different crop and better settings.

Looks better ?

I like it

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Yep. Spot on now, though I thought the other one was as well. How's your sky? I ask because I need to use filters otherwise it goes all orangey, so do you have good skies or proces the orange away? If I use filters the nebulosity seems to go away as well with the DSLR (hence the 16HR)

TIA

Captain Chaos

[Vega]

Don't want to insult your intelligence, but I think you are referring to the "Running Man" nebula at the top of the image, just FYI!

That's a ridiculously brilliant image - I am in Awe (a quaint little town at the coast, to the north of Aberdeen )

Andrew

Bah ... caught me wiv my trousers down.. lol. I couldn't for the life of me think of it's 'asterism' name at the time, so rather than give in to my pride and google it, I tried to avoid properly identifying it.

Forever learning in this trade!

Matt

[barkis]

I can but add that I echo all that has been said, and then some. It is not often I have seen the Orion Loop, but there it is plain as day.

Excellent is not enough, we need another word. Somebody please invent another word.

Barkis.

[ZOG]

Splendiferous One of the nicest M42's I've seen for a long time. Well done.