M42, Blackwater Skies

M42

M42, Blackwater Skies

M42

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Description

M42 - The Orion Nebula.

Stack of the best 60 second exposure plus seven 10 second exposures and six 30 second exposures, plus 8 darks per exposure length and 50 bias frames.

The stack was created in Deep Sky Stakcer and then put through FITS Liberator to create two sets of RGB planes (One for the core and one for the outer regions as I could not get a satisfactory range in one set).

The RGBs were composited and masked in the GIMP (8 bit, ugh!), with curves, colour balancing, noise supression and sharpening.

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M42, Blackwater Skies