Congratulations to John Punnet for getting his image of M42 in Anton Vamplew's new book "Simple Stargazing"
Wow !! Well done! How did you manage that one John ?
Is that the widefield one that included Orion or is this one you haven't posted up to the forum?
Hi Paul, Mike - Thanks - The image that is in the book is one of the first I took with my EOS-300D. I actually took it round Chris's house through his ED-80 (piggybacked on the LX90) so he would probably claim part ownership ...sorry Chris no name mention.... :-) It all came about because Greg saw the picture on the forum & obviously has some links with Anton/ the new book - he asked if they could use it (that was about 8 months ago) - Greg skillfully applied some of his post-processing skills to bring out the detail. It's kinda cool having your name published even though there is no financial benefit/ commission of any kind - I even had to buy the book myself...
The image used is as shown below - if you want to see Greg's version I'll bring the book to the next meet or DSC. I want to add also that Paul has one of his pictures of the moon published in the book as well....! Well done Paul!
Cheers, John.
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.punnett/graphics/oas/M42_reprocess.jpg)
Excellent! Well done John and Paul. You should bring the book along on Thursday so we can have a look.