M42 Revisited

After yesterdays proud effort in capturing the beauty of the Andromeda Galaxy, I was looking for any excuse to go out this early morning and experiment with M42, the Orion Nebula. With the clocks going back one hour last weekend, it meant that getting up at 5 would give me less observing time than it would have given me a couple of weeks ago. This was more than apparent when I was taken aback when I saw how far the constellation of Orion had progressed over my shed and was descending towards the horizon. I quickly set up. Canon 400D, no Astronmik filter, Canon 70-300mm lens set on 190mm as I did yesterday, but this time I set the F-stop to f/6.3 and ISO to 200. £0 second exposures. I could only manage 36 images and the last half of those the neighbours roof crept into the shot. DOH! Took 10 darks too.

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop by adjusting R,G and B Levels and curves.

Cropped