M42 Orion Nebula

Mark Griffith

Swindon

Teleskop service 12″ Richey-Chretien telescope, Skywatcher EQ8 mount,Atik 383L+ camera, Astronomik LRGB filters,
Astro physics 0.67 reducer, Hutech IDAS light pollution filter.

Lots of bad weather and only one clear night to work with this month.

Used a layer mask with 30 second data for the over exposed trapezium area.

LRGB image with 3 hours 25 minutes of data. 17 x Lum 7 x Red 7 x Green 7 x Blue 5 minute exposures.
18 x Lum 6 x Red 6 x Green 6 x Blue 5 minute exposures

2018-01-18T00:00:00