I am rather happy with today's image even though it didn't work out quite like I wanted. I went out last week to try an Orion Nebula image. I wanted to get several images to stack which allows you to reduce the grain. It was a windy evening and I only got 2 shots out of the 8 I took to come out fairly well, the others had a bit of elongation in the stars due to slight wind movement even though I was using a really heavy duty overkill tripod. This image is actually the very first one I took and I ended up not stacking it with the other, I just processed this one and was pleased with the results. The nebula can be, sort of, seen by eye, it's why Orion's belt looks somewhat fuzzy. I was really pleased and amazed by what I could capture with my camera. I shot this at f13, 500mm, for 40 seconds at ISO 400. As I have mentioned, my camera has had an update which allows it to track the movement of the stars by computation from the sensor to not get star trailing in long exposures required to get images like this. I hope to try again for more images to stack to get more detail and less grain and a closer image but may have to wait for this one until next winter when Orion is back in the sky in a better position.
