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Great Orion Nebula, M42, with M43 and the Running Man nebula above it. Total of 5 x 10 min exposures on an Orion Starshoot Pro Color V1 camera. Imaged through Pentax 105EDHF refractor, atop Orion Atlas mount, autoguided with a Celestron Orion 80mm refractor having a Meade DSI1 imager. Processed in personal software, then processed for with flats, darks, stacked, and converted to color in MaximDL Essentials. Image converted with Squareroot function in MDLE, then processed and sharpened in PhotoshopCS3. Image taken Jan 4 2010 from the backyard in Sunnyvale CA.
m42_600_NoiseReduced_IEEEFloat_LogScreenStretchMDLE_vsharp_small
Great Orion Nebula, M42, with M43 and the Running Man nebula above it. Total of 5 x 10 min exposures on an Orion Starshoot Pro Color V1 camera. Imaged through Pentax 105EDHF refractor, atop Orion Atlas mount, autoguided with a Celestron Orion 80mm refractor having a Meade DSI1 imager. Processed in personal software, then processed for with flats, darks, stacked, and converted to color in MaximDL Essentials. Image converted with Squareroot function in MDLE, then processed and sharpened in PhotoshopCS3. Image taken Jan 4 2010 from the backyard in Sunnyvale CA.