m42_X6_600s_Pentax_Jan_5_2010_6x600s_XSqrRt_v5
The Great Nebula of Orion or M42 with the Running Man Nebula above it. Taken January 5 2010 from my suburban Sunnyvale, California back yard. It is a combination of 6 x 600sec exposures through a Pentax 105EDHF 4 inch refractor. Camera was an Orion Starshoot Pro Color (V1) camera, at prime focus. Telescope was mounted on an Orion Atlas EQ/G mount. Guiding was by an Orion Off-AxisGuider using a Meade DSI (v1) imager. Stacking was with self-created software, which creates various intensity compressions. This is the square root of the luminance. The final image was slightly adjusted in Photoshop CS3.
m42_X6_600s_Pentax_Jan_5_2010_6x600s_XSqrRt_v5
The Great Nebula of Orion or M42 with the Running Man Nebula above it. Taken January 5 2010 from my suburban Sunnyvale, California back yard. It is a combination of 6 x 600sec exposures through a Pentax 105EDHF 4 inch refractor. Camera was an Orion Starshoot Pro Color (V1) camera, at prime focus. Telescope was mounted on an Orion Atlas EQ/G mount. Guiding was by an Orion Off-AxisGuider using a Meade DSI (v1) imager. Stacking was with self-created software, which creates various intensity compressions. This is the square root of the luminance. The final image was slightly adjusted in Photoshop CS3.