Posted: January 23rd, 2009
Bigger size: 1509x935
DATE
Last week of December 2008, first week of Jnuary 2009
PHOTO
Exposure time:
Ha: 8x30'
L: 10x15' + 15x1' + 20x12"
RGB: 8x5' 2x2 each, plus a few shorter exposures
Total: 8.8 hours
Focal: 385mm, f/3.6
EQUIPMENT
Imaging scope: Takahashi FSQ 106 EDX with 0.7 reducer
Camera: STL11000
Guiding camera: StarShoot AutoGuider
Guiding scope: Orion ShortTube 80mm
Mount: Takahashi EM-400
SITE & CONDITIONS
Home for some Ha, Henry Coe and Coyote Lake for the rest and all LRGB
Seeing: Ok
Transparency: Regular
SOFTWARE
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Processing: PixInsight & Photoshop
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5 Comments
Comments
alice-amanda kay (Contact, Page), February 13th, 2009, 9:10
What a beautiful image you've taken. It is stunning
Milan Gucic (Contact, Page), June 5th, 2009, 6:44
Why did they send Hubble when there is one down there :)
I saw a lot of amazing photos but this is the most far superior. Bravo!!!
Ann Sidbrant (Contact, Page), October 1st, 2009, 11:40
Fantastic amount of nebulosity. Hypnotic eerie colors. And hey, I spotted the Easter Bunny at bottom center - watch those ears!
Marc Diethelm (Contact, Page), February 13th, 2012, 2:36
Your images of Orion are absolutely stunning! Unfortunately the JPEG compression you used almost turns the stars into squares. Any chance of getting a higher quality version?
RBA (Contact, Page), February 13th, 2012, 3:29
Thanks for all the nice comments!
Marc, I do have higer-res versions of some images. I usually save those for printing purposes or other projects. In the case of this image however, the highest res version you see is the highest res version there is (other than being in uncompressed form). Unfortunately, back in the "old" days I wasn't so careful about preserving high-res versions of my images, and most of them ended up reduced in size during post-processing, and so the final version was also reduced in size. I no longer do that, but there's not much I can do about older images.
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