M42_Rotate_UVIR_Oct_13_2012_7x500sAvg_MDLELogLog_CS5
M42 and M43 at center with the Running Man nebula in the bottom right. This is an average of 7 exposures of 500 sec each taken the night of Oct 13 2012, in the Los Gatos mountains (PAS dark site). The image was compressed using Log(Log) functions. The initial images were cleaned of hot pixels and USB dropouts then converted to RGB color using personal software. These 7 images were then stacked in Maxim DL Essentials using Average, then compressed twice with the Log function. Final image processing was completed in Adobe CS5.
M42_Rotate_UVIR_Oct_13_2012_7x500sAvg_MDLELogLog_CS5
M42 and M43 at center with the Running Man nebula in the bottom right. This is an average of 7 exposures of 500 sec each taken the night of Oct 13 2012, in the Los Gatos mountains (PAS dark site). The image was compressed using Log(Log) functions. The initial images were cleaned of hot pixels and USB dropouts then converted to RGB color using personal software. These 7 images were then stacked in Maxim DL Essentials using Average, then compressed twice with the Log function. Final image processing was completed in Adobe CS5.