Orion Constellation

[MarkS]

The Orion Constellation on Sunday night.  I piggybacked the Canon 400D on the Tak whilst shooting M42 - so it was a case of shoot one image, get another free!

35 x 5min at ISO 800.  H-alpha modified Canon 400D with Nikon 35mm lens at F/4 and CLS filter.



Larger version here:
http://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronomy/2011/hhorion23102011.jpg

It's the best image I've ever obtained of Barnard's Loop so I'm pretty happy with this.  Again, this image was affected by passing high level thin cloud but not too badly.

Processing sequence was to stack the frames and apply arcsinh range  compression.  Then subtracted some nasty gradients.

Mark

[Mac]

Very nice indeed.

Mac.

[mickw]

Yes, very nice


You've come on a bit since this.....................
2008

[MarkS]

You've come on a bit since this.....................
2008

I was very pleased with that one at the time! 
If you look hard enough at it, you can just about see Barnard's Loop emerging.

Mark

[RobertM]

Very nice Mark, that lens looks to be very good.  I can even just make out a faint witches head near Rigel.

Robert

[JohnP]

Looks nice Mark - even see the 'itsy bitsy' horse-head. It is really improved over your earlier efforts & Bloop shows up really nice. My only comment would be colour on 3 main belt stars perhaps looks a tad 'turquoise'....

Great though - John

[MarkS]

Very nice Mark, that lens looks to be very good.  I can even just make out a faint witches head near Rigel.

The lens is a really old one - I got it for about £30 I think, off eBay.

As you can see, it's passable at F/4 but it's not much good at max aperture F/2.8

Mark

[MarkS]

Bloop shows up really nice.

What is Bloop?

[JohnP]

You don't know what the Bloop is!!!!!!


Just me being lazy - Barnard's Loop.......