M42 & the Running Man (Reprocess)
Taken between midnight and 1am overnight on 27th/28th October.
Taken with a 70mm William Optics refractor and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier.
ISO-1600 for 30 seconds. 110 images stacked with 57 darks using Deep Sky Stacker. Reprocessed on 11/09/18 using Photoshop CS2 with RC Astro Tools & Astroflat Pro. The core of M42 was preserved by using a 3-layer layer mask blend. Final tweaks in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
M42 & the Running Man (Reprocess)
Taken between midnight and 1am overnight on 27th/28th October.
Taken with a 70mm William Optics refractor and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier.
ISO-1600 for 30 seconds. 110 images stacked with 57 darks using Deep Sky Stacker. Reprocessed on 11/09/18 using Photoshop CS2 with RC Astro Tools & Astroflat Pro. The core of M42 was preserved by using a 3-layer layer mask blend. Final tweaks in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer