Orion: Orion, a place that draws a newcomer as a moth is drawn to flame and light. I have long followed the complexity and challenge presented by this forum in particular and have at...

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

Orion, a place that draws a newcomer as a moth is drawn to flame and light.

I have long followed the complexity and challenge presented by this forum in particular and have at long last realized that technology has been changing and what was once very difficult (likely impossible for me) has become at least approachable. So I decided to learn and expand my frontiers by seeing what I could see.

Recipe:
Thirty exposures at 180 seconds each, 20 @ 90s, 10 @ 15s.
Old Canon 400mm lens plus 1.4 extender
ZWO AM5 mount
ASI2600MC-Duo camera
ASIAir computer to control the mount and camera
pixInsight software to stack and edit and then input into PS for more play
and half a moon under dark Maine skies

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Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Fantastic!!!

DougS Loc: Central Arkansas

Excellent photography! Beautifully captured!
Bad(?) thing is: makes me want to go dig out my telescope (which lies buried in my storage room)...

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

Retired CPO wrote:

Fantastic!!!

thanks Retired CPO

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

DougS wrote:

Excellent photography! Beautifully captured!
Bad(?) thing is: makes me want to go dig out my telescope (which lies buried in my storage room)...

thanks Doug - LOL, too funny! Yeah, go Unbury that thing!

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Wow! Absolutely beautiful! Very nice work.

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

BassmanBruce wrote:

Wow! Absolutely beautiful! Very nice work.

thank you Bruce - I appreciate your encouragement!

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

pfrancke wrote:

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Excellent image of Orion and the Running Man. I have to agree with you about the moth/flame statement. Orion is still my favorite subject.

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

alberio wrote:

Excellent image of Orion and the Running Man. I have to agree with you about the moth/flame statement. Orion is still my favorite subject.

thanks alberio, everything about it is a compromise. If you get the proper light, you blow out the middle - so this rendition captures some of the detail but it does not capture the bold and violent brightness of it. Our view of Everything is filtered and determined by the lenses we choose to view with.

profbowman Loc: Harrisonburg, VA, USA

pfrancke wrote:

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This photo is very exciting. I'm sure it required lots of skill to get it.

Hdey, as I downloaded and looked at it, I think you have more detail than you have shown. So, I played with iit a bit. Also, I reoriented it so that Orion is in its usual position of being perpendicular to the path of the ecliptic. Just having some fun. --Richard

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pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

profbowman wrote:

This photo is very exciting. I'm sure it required lots of skill to get it.

Hdey, as I downloaded and looked at it, I think you have more detail than you have shown. So, I played with iit a bit. Also, I reoriented it so that Orion is in its usual position of being perpendicular to the path of the ecliptic. Just having some fun. --Richard

Hi Richard, I think your update to the image is AWESOME - and that form/shape/dust of the Nebula is exciting to see. The skill does not belong to me, it is just the technology is really good now-days, things are easier to figure out. The hardware is smarter. I am glad that you enjoyed playing with the image and especially I am enjoying looking at your version.

profbowman Loc: Harrisonburg, VA, USA

pfrancke wrote:

Hi Richard, I think your update to the image is AWESOME - and that form/shape/dust of the Nebula is exciting to see. The skill does not belong to me, it is just the technology is really good now-days, things are easier to figure out. The hardware is smarter. I am glad that you enjoyed playing with the image and especially I am enjoying looking at your version.

Thanks for your kindness. With my eyesight have deterorated even more with the onset of glaucoma, I have had to give up observationalo astronomy.
but since I can make the text and graphics larger on my screen, I can still enjoy manipulating images to see what more data one might be able to get from them. I never do this to down the original observer's work lbut aas you mentioned to see what we can do together.

Hope y ou continue to have fun, too. --Richard

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

profbowman wrote:

Thanks for your kindness. With my eyesight have deterorated even more with the onset of glaucoma, I have had to give up observationalo astronomy.
but since I can make the text and graphics larger on my screen, I can still enjoy manipulating images to see what more data one might be able to get from them. I never do this to down the original observer's work lbut aas you mentioned to see what we can do together.

Hope y ou continue to have fun, too. --Richard

thanks Richard, my eyesight is not as good as it used to be and is getting worse too I fear. Never worry about fooling with an image I put up, I enjoy seeing what you did with it. I really like the colors you worked you emphasized.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

pfrancke wrote:

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Nice work on M42 and running man nebula.

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

Ballard wrote:

Nice work on M42 and running man nebula.

thanks Ballard