M42 region with Orion and the Running Man nebula

This took much work to get something more or less usable in colors with the bright lit street lights, and no use of any LPS filters (to avoid any double reflections), I also had to ditch the Green lights, that caused nothing but trouble.

 

M42 region with Orion and the Running Man nebula;

 

In the recipe:

A sweet slight portion of Halpha added to the Red channel to cheat the system a little bit and pop the clouds up

 

A synthetic 30/70 merge between Red and Blue for the Green channel to cheat the system a little bit more (in your face, light pollution)

 

And a Blue channel uncooked and raw, to come up with something like this...

 

A careful merge of the extremely bright Trapezium of the nebula

 

Integration time (not so clear)

Around 30% of 2 hours of Halpha in Red channel

Red: 26 x 2 minutes

Green: 17 x 2 minutes, all ditched in the bin, they don't count.

Blue: 21 x 2 minutes

 

Integration time for the bright core:

Red: 60 x 5 seconds

Green: 41 x 5 seconds

Blue: 12 x 1 seconds / 87 x 2 seconds / 24 x 5 seconds / 8435184641 x the number of times I lost my mind trying not to overexpose the core

 

Total integration perhaps not much more than 130 minutes, I don't even know.

 

All data taken between 2 nights on the 23rd and 25th February, 2019

 

Gear: Takahashi FSQ-106ED / ASI1600MM-C / 0.73x CR Reducer / AZ-EQ6 / Baader 1,25" filters

 

No flats, No darks, No bias

 

This image is a little bit cropped this time, since some corners were destroyed for who knows why

Done