Monday 24 November 2008

Orion is back. Hail winter!

I had to test out the camera on the Great Orion Nebula. I knew it was very easy to saturate the centre of the nebula, so I took pictures of 30s, 6s and 1s. The individual frames looked lovely. I stacked the 3 pics in Registax after subtracting the light pollution and adjusting the brightness, contrast, gamma. The result is just an addition of the 3 different exposures, which isn't technically an accurate way of displaying it, but is necessary because of the large range of brightness.
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