M45 - an old favorite!

Hi all. Here is a reduced version of my latest image taken with my new AP130 EDFS F/6 with the Starlight Xpress H16 camera. Overall, I am pretty happy with the image, although the amount of stretch is always debatable. Comments and/or suggestions are always welcome.
Cheers,
Tyler

Here is a link to the clickable full version.

http://71.18.228.62/gpage8.html

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Looks like something to be happy about. New scope must be fun.

Charlie

Nice one Tyler!

Tom

Since everyone is posting images of M45 I thought I would share this one. Due to the typically cruddy weather around here my hard-drive is littered with LRGB images that are missing R, G or B data or there simply was not enough total exposure time ;o( I decided to try the OSC route and purchased an Orion SS-pro v1 here on "tha Mart". I am very surprised with the images I got on my first trip with it to dark skies at the Okie-Tex starparty last month.

M45 10 x 10 minutes
SS-pro v1
80mm TMB triplet APO with WO .8x F/R
CI-700 mount guided with an 80mm "Super Guider" with SSAG & PHD
Captured in MDLE processed with Astro-Art v4
Stacked, white balanced, DDP, stretched and cropped a bit.

If this is 100 minutes I can't wait to see what 5 or 6 hours and a bigger scope will do.

John
CCD-Freak

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Tyler,
I think the amount of stretch is fine, yeah, the brigter stars will show some filter reflection, but the nebulosity is great. Color is super as well.