Orion's Sword

Hi All,

Not up to standards but weather and equipment woes conspired to make 7 hours of imaging worthless last night. I reduced the image to 45% to try to hide the defects and have something to show for the effort. At least you can get an idea of what I was going for. Taken with a 180mm ED Nikon lens and an ST2000XM, 7 hours HaRGB.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

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not up to standards???? thats 1000 times better than any shot I have ever attempted of orion.

to me its a very nice shot

James

Jose, that's one WONDERFUL shot!
Sweet detail & colors all around!

It sure does not look like you had that bad of a weather from looking at this!


Thanks for sharing! and keep those great shots coming!

Jose --

Very nice! I think we need more widefiels views of our wonderfus skies. They give a sense of context not available from traditional scope views.

Bob Polcyn

Very nice Jose.

Tom Davis

Thats really nice image Jose! Your being too hard on yourself. Thanks for sharing it.

John Krawczyk

Thanks Guys - you're too kind . It was really frustrating to see all the problems on the individual images after going all night on this.

Cropping and reducing the image helped hide most of them but I wish I could have shown you the full size.

Best,

Jose

That is why I love this forum..... I get to see that other peoples "defects" would be in my "Best Ever" folder.
Beautiful Jose!!