I've been suffering with about a month of rain and clouds here in the Seattle area.
So, I used this time to play with some processing of old stuff I collected when it was clear so long ago. This image is made up of about 15 stacked images of M42. I don't have much detail on the exposures, but they are between 1 and 5 minutes since they are a compilation of all my good ones.
This is taken with a Canon 10D, an Orion 80ED, guided by a 12"inch LX200 and Meade DSI.
The color of the nebula always came out kind of blue, so I got the clever idea of swappng the blue and red channels in Photoshop when playing with the RGB frames. That seemed to do the trick. I'm not sure if the colors are correct, but I think it's kind of pretty!
Tom
So, I used this time to play with some processing of old stuff I collected when it was clear so long ago. This image is made up of about 15 stacked images of M42. I don't have much detail on the exposures, but they are between 1 and 5 minutes since they are a compilation of all my good ones.
This is taken with a Canon 10D, an Orion 80ED, guided by a 12"inch LX200 and Meade DSI.
The color of the nebula always came out kind of blue, so I got the clever idea of swappng the blue and red channels in Photoshop when playing with the RGB frames. That seemed to do the trick. I'm not sure if the colors are correct, but I think it's kind of pretty!
Tom
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