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Great Orion Nebula, film negative
The famous Orion Nebula, Messier 42, captured on Fuji 200 film negative. Single 90 minute exposure on a tracking mount (iOptron HAE29) though my Pentax 105 SDP (670 mm focal length) telescope. I used a Nikon F80 camera. This was scanned with Nikon Coolscan 4000 ED negative scanner - the nebula has a huge dynamic range, I had to make three separate scans to capture the detail in the bright center, so it wouldn't appear blown out. I combined them in PS, then made some "modern" adjustments in PixInsight - background extraction and a little bit of NoiseXterminator and BlurXterminator. After this I did some corves adjustments in PS. if you're pixel peeping, you will see some processing artifacts, but for this first attempt I'm very satisfied. Stacking several exposures should make a difference.
Note that this is cropped - it's a 2x1.3 degree field of view, while the full frame is 3x2 degrees.
Great Orion Nebula, film negative
The famous Orion Nebula, Messier 42, captured on Fuji 200 film negative. Single 90 minute exposure on a tracking mount (iOptron HAE29) though my Pentax 105 SDP (670 mm focal length) telescope. I used a Nikon F80 camera. This was scanned with Nikon Coolscan 4000 ED negative scanner - the nebula has a huge dynamic range, I had to make three separate scans to capture the detail in the bright center, so it wouldn't appear blown out. I combined them in PS, then made some "modern" adjustments in PixInsight - background extraction and a little bit of NoiseXterminator and BlurXterminator. After this I did some corves adjustments in PS. if you're pixel peeping, you will see some processing artifacts, but for this first attempt I'm very satisfied. Stacking several exposures should make a difference.
Note that this is cropped - it's a 2x1.3 degree field of view, while the full frame is 3x2 degrees.