Orion Nebula (Yes, not again!)

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Orion Nebula (Yes, not again!)

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Hi all, yes it's Orion nebula season again, and this my 3rd year in shooting it. Armed with faster imaging system ( 8" f/4.5 newt ) this time round, I was finally able to acquire all 3 narrowband images in a single imaging session. On this night, the sky was cooperating, allowed me to collect a fair bit of colour data as well. All the images were taken with my modified Canon 350D, with ISO800 at various exposures.

Here is the nebula in normal colour, but I blend it with Halpha as luminance data to improve the s/n ratio.
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And here, in different guise we are not too accustom with. Employing Hubble Pallet, SII is mapped Red, Halpha to Green & OIII to Blue.
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Post by chuang »

Wow looks fantastic. Like there is a storm brewing somewhere in there... How long are your shots?
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Post by Tachyon »

Great!
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Nice ...
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Post by Meng Lee »

Oooo great!

The benefits of larger aperture on s/n is pretty obvious I think.

I think there is no storm brewing. Orion nebula is one of the simplest and toughest object to image. (My English is OK!) So it captivates everybody.
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Post by Clifford60 »

Wow, very nice, but still can't accept purple stars on the 2nd pic.
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You have done very well indeed!
I like the 1st one a lot.

Not too excited about the false colour image, but many people like them.

Looking at yours stars I notice a slight egg shape to them. Did you have small guiding problems?

Keep up the great work : )
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deserved to be displayed.
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Hi,
WOW!! Excellent!! [smilie=admire.gif]

I also like the first one.

Have a nice day.
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Post by Meng Lee »

Hehe, it looks like even though the Hubble picture of the "Pillars of creation" in Eagle Nebula came out a few years already, most people still cannot accept pink-purple stars in narrowband images.
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