Orion Nebula M42 Test (Dale Penkala)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 41 the01 Ori · 43 the02 Ori · Great Orion Nebula · HD36917 · HD36939 · HD36981 · HD36982 · HD37042 · HD37060 · HD37061 · HD37062 · HD37114 · HD37115 · HD37150 · LBN 974 · M 42 · M 43 · Mairan's Nebula · NGC 1976 · NGC 1982 · Orion Nebula · Sh2-281 · The star θ1Ori · The star θ2Ori

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This was my very first M42 image that I took testing out my CGE Pro mount that eventually I ended up rebuilding and converting over to OnStep. I had my large 12” f/5 DBA Certified Newt on it and in all honesty it really was way too much for this poor mount.

At the time I really had know real knowledge of how to post process this image, so it was quite noisy and overly stretched, not to mention I was only shooting in 8bit with my 294mc pro camera. (RGB24) I decided to take the original PNG file and play around with it a tad to see what I could do with it. Back then I was only using SharpCap to do the capture, stacking and rough processing. I then took the PNG file that SC created and post process it in Gimp. The data was taken over a year and a half ago and consisted of 640 - 4sec subs that was unguided and unfiltered.

All things considered, it's my starter image, and I’m looking forward to really attempting this image with my new setup and really put some time into getting better depth and clarity.

Thanks for looking!

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h35m18s.473
RA (top/left)	05h34m01s.929
RA (top/right)	05h34m57s.842
RA (bottom/right)	05h36m34s.768
RA (bottom/left)	05h35m39s.119

Dec (center)	-05°25′45″.87
Dec (top/left)	-05°12′43″.96
Dec (top/right)	-05°48′16″.12
Dec (bottom/right)	-05°38′50″.77
Dec (bottom/left)	-05°03′14″.58

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