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M42, M43 and NGC 1977
Had an incredible night on Friday. Clear Hawaiian skies. Nice trades blew away the clouds and kept it cool. Set up at dusk and imaged almost until dawn. Put some time on the Helix and M45. I was about to pack up when this old friend started peeking up over the neighbor's roof. I just couldn't say no. Inspired by all the recent M42 shots that everyone has been getting posted...particularly Neil's recent contrib...I had to give her a go. The session went well, processing was a different matter. Spent better part of the weekend tweaking this and that, and getting tips and insight from Basti and the Hopp (thanks guys, you boys are always there when I need ya). After working through no less than nine different variations, decided to back up and ease off the gas pedal. So not like me, but I like the results.
18 x 10 sec (core)
18 x 300 sec (outside)
ST2000XCM
SV70mmED
Sirius Goto
Astronomick CCD LPR
Flatman
Handmade Bahtinov Mask
Now I have to go back and work on that M45 and Helix data.
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Comment by Steve Coates on September 26, 2011 at 3:45am
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Excellent work T. I think you catured and processed everything nicely. You got the dust lanes, colors and the core is not blown out. Ive seen some images where people process so you can see the trap in the center and to me it looks "over done" Not so here, you got the right amount (to my eye) of blending from the outer H areas to the center (I hope I'm making sense). Bottom line...you've got a wall hanger here. .
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Comment by Marc Basti on September 26, 2011 at 2:38am
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Nice work T, detail came through nice (and color too). Marc
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Comment by Trevor Woodrow on September 26, 2011 at 1:01am
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Okay, I may be breaking some rules here...that is being the first comment on my ownimage but...here is the same image pushed to "11" for those of us (mainly me) who really like dramatic images...
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