Orion nebula

Started by Jean-Denis, 03/09/2005 02:41AM
Posted 03/09/2005 02:41AM Opening Post
Hi, this is my first post here. I took the attached picture last sunday March 6 from the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. I used a Canon 20D at ISO 800, a Canon 200mm 2.8 lens set at f/4 and a Losmandy G-11. The picture is the average of 20 pictures each of 5 minutes of exposure, the trapezium is the average of 5 pictures each of 20 seconds. How do I do now to fight more efficiently the light pollution and get the red nebulosity in this area more apparent ? Thanks. JD

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Posted 03/09/2005 05:22AM #1
That is a great image...first one i have seen with both horsehead and orion in the same image. You should be proud of this one. For me, it shows exactly where I should be looking for the horsehead!
Posted 03/09/2005 12:01PM #2
Wonderful shot Jean!
Excellent detail & contrast in this widefield shot!

Thank you for sharing! wink

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Posted 03/09/2005 01:35PM | Edited 03/09/2005 03:02PM #3
An awesome photo. Deceptively simple, but clearly required a tremendous amount of technical skill and processing to balance these difficult to photograph nebulosities.

Great job,
Ivan
Posted 03/09/2005 05:29PM #4
Wow, that's incredible. Two well-rendered nebula regions in one shot. Nicely framed and processed.

Unless you modify your camera to remove the IR filter, you won't get a lot of the deep reds you're looking for even under dark skies. The colours here are typical of M42 with Canon dSLR's.
Posted 03/11/2005 07:00AM #5
Beautiful job JD. Looks like it's the 20Da or a Hutech modified next. It doesn't end does it?

Dan
Posted 03/11/2005 05:52PM #6
I love the unusual image scale. Very nice work. Gotta love big chips and small pixels.

Clear skies,

Flint Thomas
Posted 03/12/2005 04:08AM #7
Wonderful framing and image scale.

I loved it.

Thanks,

Greg.