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M42 - Great Orion Nebula | SC 3.1 The Brain 416x4.4s Altair 290M Luminance WO71 f/5.9 | 14/01/2018 | Morgan B

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 4:26 am
by oopfan
Total integration time: 30.5 minutes. Collected 60 minutes but conditions were deteriorating rapidly. 50 Darks,
Deep Sky Stacker, Star Tools. Simple post-processing: stretch and crop, no sharpening or noise reduction.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/oopfan-astroph ... rgan+B.jpg

Re: M42 - Great Orion Nebula | SC 3.1 The Brain 416x4.4s Altair 290M Luminance WO71 f/5.9 | 14/01/2018 | Morgan B

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 10:15 am
by turfpit
Nice image Brian - some detail in the nebulosity as well. It just shows what can be done with stacking many shorter exposures.

Dave

Re: M42 - Great Orion Nebula | SC 3.1 The Brain 416x4.4s Altair 290M Luminance WO71 f/5.9 | 14/01/2018 | Morgan B

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:49 pm
by oopfan
Thanks Dave. The TIFF file has greater dynamic range than this PNG which gives a muddy appearance.