My first ever M42!

[Rocket Pooch]

Hi,

This is my first ever M42, taken with the 80mmF5 scope and consists of 25 1sec, 20 8sec & 3 20sec stacks, combined in Photoshop, I did not remove a flat mask so I've cropped about 30% of the image out.

This was taken using the SAC8 with no filters, I even forgot to put the IR on



[ This Message was edited by: csuddell on 2004-11-06 17:05 ]

[JohnP]

Hi Chris - Nice image - I know M42 has always been something you wanted to capture. Could you possibly post one each of the the 1, 8, 20 sec Raws - I like to have a look at what magnitudes you were able to image to with the various exposures.

Cheers,  John

[Rocket Pooch]

Ok

1 Second stack




8 Second stack




20 Second stack

[Whitters]

Hi Chris,
Images are looking good I love the apostrophe that is M43. Do you know what is causing the dark shadows on the bright stars? Is it a processing artefact?

[Rocket Pooch]

This is old school, but the shadow is actually from the camera, it transmits to the control box in RF and obviously the control box is not tunes in  I must see if there's something I can do about it.

See ya

[JohnP]

Thks - I love the nebulosity in the 8 & 20sec images - We will have to try & get a few colour images with the TouCam & see if we can combine - I'm sure it would look very impressive - John

[Rocket Pooch]

it looks like it will be clear tonight and saturday so I'll be out as usual.