M42 The Orion Nebula
  • Details
    Date Taken: 01/10/2015
    Location: Hocking County, Ohio
    Telescope: Orion SkyView Pro 8" Equatorial Reflector Telescope
    Other Camera: Nikon D3100
    Processing: DSS, Photoshop, Lightroom
    Exposure: Total exposure time of 8 min 45 sec
    Notes: This is a stack of 30s, 10s, and 5s frames. RGB channels were stretched individually in FITS Liberator after being stacked in DSS. I then imported the RGB frames into a stack in Photoshop and assigned them their corresponding colors using a . I then flattened the image and adjusted levels, curves and slight color calibration. Noise reduction and other minor touch ups were then done in Lightroom.