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Amazing shot Tony...looks like you painted it with a brush, while hanging
around down in the village....<g>
great work! m. Tony Hallas wrote: Hi Folks, I have a new M-42 posted that I took with the 14.5" Cassegrain and hypered RG200. I noticed that I need to add half an hour of hypering to get the same "fix" that I get in the heat of the summer... so my winter hyper time is 1.5 hours instead of one hour due no doubt to the garage being an ice box compared to the summertime. This M-42 is a stack of four negatives ranging in time from 10 seconds to 30 minutes. The pronounced yellow color around the Trapezium is that way on the film (it looks blue on the film)... also this image called for significant decision making to decide just how to scale the densities and make it look "natural." As Roland pointed out, the density ranges here are like 1 to 1000 and yet, the image has to have everything showing and evenly illuminated. The colors are basically the way they showed up on the film... in the five minute exposure I don't think there was very much reciprocity failure so I felt that I could trust those colors.The complexity of this nebula is mind boggling. It can be viewed at: http://www.astrophoto.com/M42CU.htm Any comments are welcome... Have a good one, Tony --
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