M42 - The Great Orion Nebula
Skunk Hollow Observatory
M42 - The Great Orion Nebula (Stellarvue SV66ED). Shot using a Stellarvue SV66ED piggybacked on top of a SuperCharged Meade LX200 10" with a SBIG ST-2000XM. 40 minutes (8 x 5 minutes) luminance at 1x1 binned. RGB (5:5:5) at 1x1 binned for each channel. Completely automated acquisition using CCD Commander & MaxIm. Dark frames and flat field frames applied. Self guided by SBIG ST-2000XM. Aligned and combined in CCDSoft. Applied light DDP in AstroArt. Final processing done in Adobe Photoshop.
SBIG ST-2000XM,Stellarvue SV66ED
All Images Copyright by Bill Worley