M42

[chrome gazelle]

2 year old data, 2h of exposure with QHY268C and 10" f4 imaging newtonian. Sadly the seeing was bad, but I want to retry this winter again.

[jovial pivot]

Excellent details

[chrome gazelle]

Some crop of the center

It is not bad, but a 10" newt can do better

[clear moss]

nice man

[bleak cobalt]

good stuff

[winter iron]

nice man, perfect colours and hdr

[chrome gazelle]

Thank you 🙂 I used the iHDR script to stretch, I find HDRMT hard to use, it always flattens the core too much for me

[winter iron]

hmm this ihdr sounds popular, i should give it a try, but i already have a really good method

also hdrmt is moreso for bringing contrast to bright areas in hdr images, not really for doing the hdr process

i use it sometimes

[wet ginkgo]

NICE what filter?

[chrome gazelle]

I did a hdr composite actually, but just to keep the trapezium stars smaller, the qhy268c is amazing with the extended fullwell mode you can image m42 with one exposure time completely without any blown out core

[chrome gazelle]

Just uv ir cut, it is a normal rgb osc image

[bleak cobalt]

what method

[hot meteor]

WOWZA

[summer lance]

I think IHDR is cool, and it does work phenomenally well, but i still prefer manual methods, definitely worth adding to your scripts though! its alot quicker than the manual methods lol

[winter iron]

mmt lum masks

[chrome gazelle]

@winter iron Throwback to almost 5 years ago with DSLR

[jovial pivot]

That's stunning bro

[winter iron]

very good hdr for 5y ago haha

[chrome gazelle]

Thanks, I was really happy with it back then but it is still no comparison to the imx571 data, it was an eos750d