This was a quick grab as Orion was coming up over the house and the streelights were still out. Beautiful clear sky after the Moon eclipse.
The amazing thing was this was only 15x10s & 20x60s exposures. Anything more was completely washed out. More subs would have been good for the noise as would flats but I am still amazed at what I got in 22.5 min of exposures!
Image date, time and location: 20150928 05:00 CEST Manche France
Telescope aperture and focal ratio: Meade LX90 8" Baader Alan Gee Telecompressor at f5.5
Camera and filters used: Canon 1000D Modded no filters
Processing applied: Deep Sky Stacker, Photoshop CS2, reduced to 33%
(http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10050/normal_M42_Early_Morning_DSS_CS2.jpg) (http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10050/M42_Early_Morning_DSS_CS2.jpg)
That's a lot of data for such short exposures Duncan.
Carole
A very nice result!
Mark
Wow Duncan what an improvement on henfield