m42_80mm1x1_raw_gd_300s_10-stack_color_v2
The sword region of the constellation Orion. The great Orion Nebula [Messier M42] appears left below center of this image...and the fainter M43 area above it. The faint Running Man nebula appears just above left of center. Image taken with a Vixen SS80ED refractor, guided with a piggybacked Meade 10 inch LX50 SCT, Both scopes mounted on an Orion Atlas EQ/G mount. An Orion Starshoot Pro Color camera was used to take 10 of 5 minute light images with a number of dark and flat correction images. These were processed with MaximDL Essentials and then stacked with DeepSkyStacker. Final lens corrections at the periphery and color adjustments were done in Photoshop CS3. Images were taken in my suburban back yard on a moonlit night in November 2009. (copyright Michael Herman 2009)
m42_80mm1x1_raw_gd_300s_10-stack_color_v2
The sword region of the constellation Orion. The great Orion Nebula [Messier M42] appears left below center of this image...and the fainter M43 area above it. The faint Running Man nebula appears just above left of center. Image taken with a Vixen SS80ED refractor, guided with a piggybacked Meade 10 inch LX50 SCT, Both scopes mounted on an Orion Atlas EQ/G mount. An Orion Starshoot Pro Color camera was used to take 10 of 5 minute light images with a number of dark and flat correction images. These were processed with MaximDL Essentials and then stacked with DeepSkyStacker. Final lens corrections at the periphery and color adjustments were done in Photoshop CS3. Images were taken in my suburban back yard on a moonlit night in November 2009. (copyright Michael Herman 2009)