Orion's Sword & M42 the Orion Nebula 07/12/18

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, Canon 1100D with Sky Tech Light Pollution clip filter, on an EQ 5 Pro mount.

 

Outer region:

ISO-800 for 90 seconds

108 images stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, then processed in Photoshop CS2

 

Core region:

ISO-800 for 10 seconds, 13 images stacked using Deep Sky Stacker and processed in Photoshop CS2.

 

I processed 4 times to preserve detail in certain areas then blended them together using layer masks.

 

Merged image processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer

Done