Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Reprocessed M42

Here is a reprocessed image of M42. It is 10 x 15 second frames, stacked and color-balanced in Nebulosity with final tweaking in Photoshop. I deliberately "blew out" the core in this image so that the subtle details in the surrounding gas cloud are more visible.

Eqpt: F/4 Newt; DS 2.3+; Orion Skyglow Imaging Filter.

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