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©2006-2009 *Hector42
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This is based on the same image data as my older M42: The Great Orion Nebula - M42

This time I used the five H-alpha shots as red channel (epxosure: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 minutes at f/4).
The five shots through the visual UHC-filter were taken for the green channel (exposure: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 minutes at f/4).
The one shot without any filter is used as blue channel (exposure: 30 minutes at f/8).

I know, the colours are strange but that makes for a nice change :lol:

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Nikon FE
hypered TP 2415 film (for H-alpha and UHC shots)
Fuji Neopan 100 Acros (whithout filter but it's not sensitive to H-alpha)
modified EQ-6 mount
8 " GSO Newtonian optics (f = 800 mm) in a very stable selfmade truss tube :D
comacorrector
Nikon 2x Teleconverter
manually guided @ D = 60 mm, f = 900 mm through a Baader Microguide eyepiece
13 nm FWHM CCD H-alpha filter
visual UHC filter

Photoshop (aligning and cosmetics)
Registar (averaging)
Cadet (custom PSF deconvolution)
Noiseware (adaptive FFT noisefilter with built in sharpening function)

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GReat color mix in the core :D but there seems to be a lot of detail gone :-?
Maybe you should try Orion Deepfield once like [link]

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Myes, I didn't take too much care about the core this time, shame on me...
In general the detail in this image should be better, because I aligned the images more accurate and stacked them using Registar, not Photoshop. However, I kept back a bit from deconvolving the whole thing.
I know this deep field but how long do I have to expose the film with my 8 " Newton when Gendler exposed 20 h CCD using some refractros and a 12.5 " RC??? :faint: :dead:
That's simply impossible with my equipment. Gimme that SBIG cam!!! :cries:

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:iconhector42:
Thank you :)

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OH das ist aber wunderschön!!!
Ich möchte gern solche photos marchen.
Do hasst sehr viel Glück!!!

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Welcome to the darkness...
:iconhector42:
Thank you!! :)
Ehehe, in fact these shots weren't too lucky, there was moonlight disturbing, as well es fog and misted over lenses and mirrors. Could have been better... :lol:
You need a telescope with a parallactic mount to take such images...do you have one?

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:iconhector42:
Thank you!! :)
Ehehe, in fact these shots weren't too lucky, there was moonlight disturbing, as well es fog and misted over lenses and mirrors. Could have been better... :lol:
You need a telescope with a parallactic mount to take such images...do you have one?

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Oh no, but i'd like to have one !
Euh I would say I'd like to live there near stars.
It must be fantastic!
But, you don't need only a telescope but a nice weather without clouds.
Do you saw the eclipse?
Did you some shots?
I was so sad because in France there were too much clouds.
Hmmm but it is even so very great!
Where did you took this beautiful shot?

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Welcome to the darkness...
:iconhector42:
Unfortunately these colorful nebulae, galaxies and stars don't look like we know them from photographs, when seeing them directly through the telescope. If you want to see them like they show up on photographs or in movies (e.g. "Contact"), while you are flying through the universe, you need eyes as big as watermelons...or even bigger :lol:
But sometimes it's great so see a star or a galaxy directly...dreaming of what may happen there...
Yes, the weather is a big problem but even in Germany or France there are nights without clouds :P
The real problem is the light pollution. All the lights of cities, cars, etc. brighten the sky so much that it gets brighter than the object you want to see/photograph. Then, of course, the object gets invisible.
The last eclipse happened while I was still sleeping :lol: but I didn't want to watch it anyway (and it was cloudy here, too). It wasn't a total eclipse here and sometimes I prefer some sleep to watching a partial eclipse :rofl:. But I have a shot from the eclipse 1999, were I was in Turkey: 'I Can Not Hide Forever'
I took all 11 raw images in our garden, right out of a small city :( , northern Germany.
Your first comment is in German, this question comes a bit late but do you prefer German for our future communication?

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I've never had the occasion to see a nebula with a telescope especially the eagle nebula (it is the one that I prefer). It is so fantastic!
Ich wohnte in Wiesbaden wenn ich klein war.
Well I have to go to the university...
Have a nice day!

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