M42 Orion Nebula LRGB, Andrew Scott

M42 Orion Nebula LRGB

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)
M42 Orion Nebula LRGB, Andrew Scott

M42 Orion Nebula LRGB

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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M42 the Orion Nebula in LRGB

L 180sec x 16 (48mins)
R 180sec x 28 (84mins)
G 180sec x 44 (132mins)
B 180sec x 30 (90mins)

Skywatcher Esprit 100ED
ASI533mm Pro
Skywatcher AZ-EQ6R
Optolong LRGB filters
Bottle 6 skies in Mt Waverley 18/19th October

Trying the GraXpert tool for background normalisation and stretching for the first time, the merging and post processing in PixInsight.

An endless spiral of editing, the capturing of the image data his the easy bit, post processing the image to make it look like something interesting and real is the hard bit. Hopefully this looks ok, struggling to reduce the over bright central section.

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M42 Orion Nebula LRGB, Andrew Scott