M42/43 and NGC1977

[galacticphoto]

Decembers holiday activities and cloudy skies reduced the imaging time to little more than a couple sets, but I've attached reduced size jpeg of one photo taken with the H9 through a ED80 @ f/5.3. The photo consists of a bit over 1 1/2hr lum and 2 1/2hr RGB, I didn't include the Ha on this version.

Robert

[budguinn]

Nice detail and color.....did the ha give pretty good detail on it's own?

bud

[galacticphoto]

The Ha had excellent detail, over the brighter portion of M42. If I had taken a set of +1 1/2 stop Ha exposures, I would have used them to augment the red channel.

[BT Technologies]

Beautiful image Robert. VERY nice detail!!

[stargazer]

hi Robert,

thbis is a very nice image of the orion and the running man!
very nicely processed; the stars look very natural!
best regards
Dietmar