Marc G
Loc: East Grinstead, West Sussex, England
Extreme Wide Field of the Constellation of Orion
Four hours imagining before the clouds crept in.
Techy Bits......
Askar 135mm
Altair Astro filter holder
L Pro Max filter
Altair Astro 269c pro tec
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
Sharpcap for PA
APT for focus, plate solve & imagining
Lights 60 285g HGC 25os 60s
Lights 40 285g HGC 25os 90s
Lights 20 285g HGC 25os 120s
Darks 5 60s 5 90s 5 120s
Flats & Flat Darks x 30
Stacked, registered, intergrated in APP
Post Processed in PS CC2015
That is really beautiful! Amazing!
Mark, this is as good an image of this area as I've seen. Wow!
Marc G
Loc: East Grinstead, West Sussex, England
Than you all. Alberio, I would love to get wider but only option now is mosaic
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
Marc G wrote:
Extreme Wide Field of the Constellation of Orion
Four hours imagining before the clouds crept in.
Techy Bits......
Askar 135mm
Altair Astro filter holder
L Pro Max filter
Altair Astro 269c pro tec
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
Sharpcap for PA
APT for focus, plate solve & imagining
Lights 60 285g HGC 25os 60s
Lights 40 285g HGC 25os 90s
Lights 20 285g HGC 25os 120s
Darks 5 60s 5 90s 5 120s
Flats & Flat Darks x 30
Stacked, registered, intergrated in APP
Post Processed in PS CC2015
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Very nice shot indeed. Using multiple exposure times really helps to bring out details in M42.
bwana
Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada
Great capture and processing! Wonderful!
bwa
That photo has exceptional quality.
Having shown Orion and its nebula to many college astronomy classes, I am trying to get my head oriented correctly. Can you send a sketch showing with a box where this is in the overall constellation? Thanks. --Richard
DougS
Loc: Central Arkansas
Got a WOW, out of me! Impressive, and beautiful!
Marc G
Loc: East Grinstead, West Sussex, England
profbowman wrote:
That photo has exceptional quality.
Having shown Orion and its nebula to many college astronomy classes, I am trying to get my head oriented correctly. Can you send a sketch showing with a box where this is in the overall constellation? Thanks. --Richard
Hi, I hope the attached assists with orientation?
Basically, Beetleguise is towards bottom left / orion is flipped 90 degrees anti-clockwise
Marc G
Loc: East Grinstead, West Sussex, England
You are so right mate. Shorter exposures preserve star size too.
A few of my friends are experimenting with 20s & 30s frames using the AA 26c with great results.
The only down side is processing 1000 30s frames, most pc's struggle at the stacking
Marc G wrote:
You are so right mate. Shorter exposures preserve star size too.
A few of my friends are experimenting with 20s & 30s frames using the AA 26c with great results.
The only down side is processing 1000 30s frames, most pc's struggle at the stacking
It seems to me if I stack groups of 5 or 10, then stack those groups of 10, the computer might handle it better instead of trying to stack 1000 subs at the same time. Not sure if that would somehow mess up the data doing that.
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