[AZ-Observing] Re: Orion Wide Field in Ha

  • From: Tim Jones <tjmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:19:07 -0700

Beautifully captured.  What was the exposure time per frame?

Tim


> On Feb 25, 2015, at 12:03 AM, Albert Barr <ajbarr@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I finally got my 6nm Ha filter for the Canon 60 DA. I tested it tonight and I 
> think it has great potential. In this field you can easily see Bernard's 
> Loop, M42, the Horse Head and Flame and I believe that's Rigel on the top 
> right with a lot of dust under it.
> The process is a little complicated but in short, you split the color image 
> into red, green and blue mono images and then process and stack the reds, 
> which is where the hydrogen is.
> 
> I didn't have much time tonight and I just wanted to test this so I took one, 
> guided 30 minute image and another 2 minute image and combined them to tone 
> down the core of M42. This is very noisy but if I don't run out of time I 
> would love to get several hours on this before Orion disappears until next 
> winter.
> 
> This looks a lot better on a computer than a phone :)
> 
> Albert
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/49526053@N04/16455428709/in/photostream/lightbox/
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