Orion Nebula and Running Man

[Zakalwe]

I have been rolling around in the carpet, fitting with PS trying to make something of this one. My processing skills are still woefully lacking however:mad:

24 x 100s lights

15 x 100s darks

5 x 10s lights

3 x 5s lights

Stacked in DSS. Layered in PS. The processing is still very crude in my eyes. Ahh well, all part of the learning curve I suppose!

[CamoCustom]

WOW, Just WOW.....

Yea, That is what I saw through the scope!

Your photo abilities surpass anything I could ever dream of! Looks pretty darn good to me!

[Doug]

This is one lovely image, I have only seen the running man twice and both times on a Mallincam VSS colour Video CCD camera So well done hope to see more of your work

Doug

[Zakalwe]

Thank you for the kind words, but my processing isn't very subtle in comparison to some of the stuff you will see on this forum.

Anyhoo, I reprocessed it again, to being out a lot more detail in the gas clouds. I hope you like it.

[Trevorw]

Second process much better well done

[samtheeagle]

You appear to have plenty of data in that image, lots of detail to work with.

I'd suggest that you have perhaps clipped the black point a bit to hard, it's tempting to try and get the background to black, but it often leads to somewhat artificial looking edges to the subject in the picture.

Personally I'm used to M42 looking a bit more red, but then I have a modded camera, so I guess this is the colouring you get when less Ha is captured.

[Uranium235]

The second process is much better, you might want to consider getting Noels actions for PS to help with the star colour and gradients.

[Fenriz]

The second image is great, good job. I got my dual axis motors yesterday so now waiting for clear skies, that is going to be my first target.

[jgs001]

Much better on the second one.. well done

[cloudbuster]

yes i agree....2nd one better.....nicely presented too