M42 Wide Field

Started by lzagar, 02/15/2005 06:16PM

Posted 02/15/2005 06:16PM | Edited 02/15/2005 06:17PM Opening Post

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This is my first try of a wide field M42 with my new Orion ED80 and Canon 300D. 60 X 15 seconds processed with ImagesPlus.

Lee

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Posted 02/16/2005 08:35AM #1

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Not bad at all, Lee. That's a lot of exposures. You got a lot of detail for 15s exposures, and the Running Man is showing up nicely. Focus looks slightly off to me, and there are some banding artifacts likely from trying to process out a gradient. Not to worry about such details, both focus and gradient control are the two toughest things about astrophoto processing.

Keep it up!

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Posted 02/16/2005 02:04PM #2

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Nice image Lee! You picked up some nice detail for such short exposures. Keep up the good work.
Cheers,
Tyler

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Posted 02/16/2005 07:24PM #3

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That's one very nice shot Lee!
Great contrast & colors, nice detail!
Cannot wait to get me a Digital SLR! wink

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Posted 02/16/2005 07:49PM #4

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Great shot. You're picking up some nice detail.

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