Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
M 42, Karl-Heinz Macek

M 42

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

This image of M 42 is my first of this subject made with the new Seestar s50:
With single shots of 20 seconds (which still produced a lot of waste) I arrived at an integration time of 40 minutes.
Autofocus is quite good, but more precision is achieved by using a Bahtinov mask.
A lens hood also helps a lot to increase contrast and avoid stray light on the lens, which is very exposed anyway.
I did the stacking in AstroPixelProcessor, after which I processed the image in Siril and Photoshop.

The second version was processed entirely in Pixinsight, and allowed me to better correct the core with the trapezoid.

Comments

Revisions

  • M 42, Karl-Heinz Macek
    Original
  • M 42, Karl-Heinz Macek
    D
  • Final
    M 42, Karl-Heinz Macek
    E

D

Description: Reprocessed in Pixinsight and PS.

Uploaded: ...

E

Title: M 42, reprocessed

Description: New version, reprocessed in Pixinsight, PS.

Uploaded: ...

Histogram

M 42, Karl-Heinz Macek

In these public groups

Imagers of Italy