Orion Nebula Finally

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Orion Nebula Finally

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After a long dry spell of bad weather, the sky decided to open up on 8 Nov with pretty good seeing and not a single patch of cloud through out my whole imaging session. But its always difficult to get the best of both worlds as the Moon was high up in its gibbous phase. Nevertheless, this is the best that I managed.
The image was made up of 50 subframes of 30s exposure at various iso between 400,800&1600. Captured with 4 inch apo at f5.4 and 350D.
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Nice pic, Kelvin! taken with the genesis-sdf?
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You are right Arief, its the Genesis sdf.
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Hi,
Nice image. Hmm... what is that straight "line" at the right end of the image??
You are right Arief, its the Genesis sdf.
Also, why is there diffraction spikes when you use a refractor?? Did you put a cross in front of your refractor while imaging?? :P

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, why is there diffraction spikes when you use a refractor?? Did you put a cross in front of your refractor while imaging??
Yes Weixing the diffraction spikes were caused by the addition of cross hair in front of the objective to aid focusing.
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HI,

can i ask what software you used to stack the pictures together??
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can i ask what software you used to stack the pictures together??
Hi iori, ImagesPlus is the software that I used to process my picture. It is a very useful software if you are using digital SLR for astrophotography.
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Post by iori86 »

Hi cataclysm,

how much would this software cost?
is it capable of stacking all pictures together?

newbie in the house, please enlighten me.
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how much would this software cost?
is it capable of stacking all pictures together
I bought my software via internet from OceanSide Photo & Telescope. It cost well under $200usd b4 freight charges. Stacking pictures is not just all it does, this is dedicated software for processing digital SLR pictures. Its able to do raw conversion, image calibrations, manipulation and more. In fact I am just scratching the surface. It also comes with video tutorial to guid you through.

Happy imaging.
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