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Orion's Nebula
Orion's Nebula
jlanoue


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2007-12 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Location: Bedford, NH
Date: Dec 12, 2007
Aperture: 160mm
ISO: 800
Shutter: b
Galleries: Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Dec 13, 2007

120 Second exposure, Canon 350xt, ISO 800, Takahashi E-160 guided with a losmandy g11 mount. Used a hutech IDAS light suppresant (pollution) filter to help deal with all the light pollution from Christmas lights, seems to have worked well. Post processing, cropped, resized, pulled down the red midtones, bumped up the green midtones, selective noise reduction (noise ninja). Camera's internal noise reduction on.

Statistics
Place: 33 out of 429
Avg (all users): 6.4828
Avg (commenters): 7.4000
Avg (participants): 6.3333
Avg (non-participants): 6.7460
Views since voting: 1583
Views during voting: 303
Votes: 174
Comments: 22
Favorites: 3 (view)


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02/08/2008 01:27:07 PM
This is the first time I have seen your work and I am amazed! Such a wonderful setup and the photos are just stunning! Wow! :) Thanks for sharing how it's done for those of us to dare to dream to have a setup like this and shoot for the stars some day. :)
Beautiful, beautiful!
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01/14/2008 07:25:59 PM
a totally brilliant photograph ..
so much knowledge and expertise has gone into this photograph and all the other ones in your portfolio .. your resulting images are beautiful to behold .. :)
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01/08/2008 02:55:56 PM
Awesome, as usual!! A big 10 vote from me.
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01/08/2008 08:49:06 AM
AWESOME !!!! 11 from me
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01/08/2008 07:56:03 AM
Absolutely magnificent John!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/07/2008 08:23:16 PM
Beautiful. Certainly the best rendering of M42 that I've seen on our site. You held detail toward the central nebula about as well as can be expected for a single exposure
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01/07/2008 07:36:38 AM
I love astrophotography. This one is a exeptionally nice one too. Sharp and detailed with nice color rendering. I envy you guys that have the equipment required for this!
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01/06/2008 08:52:58 PM
Wow! This is harder to get than it looks. Great work.
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01/06/2008 01:20:20 PM
different
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01/06/2008 11:52:52 AM
If you really took this photo, it's awesome. Very good job, and let us know what you used for this shot, I might get one for myself :)
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01/05/2008 12:18:10 PM
Wow thats crazy... What equipment did you use for this one?
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01/05/2008 11:41:27 AM
Just awesome, I love it!
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01/05/2008 09:38:05 AM
wow! amazing, and beautiful colours :)
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01/03/2008 09:00:42 PM
great photo. /10
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01/02/2008 07:15:03 PM
800mm with 2x extender eh? (joke!) Beautiful...once this challenge is over I need to pick your brains on astrophotography....
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01/02/2008 02:59:54 PM
Hi John,
Difficult to remain anonymous with such cool astrophoto's!

Can I make a request?
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01/02/2008 11:22:08 AM
Beautiful photograph.
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01/02/2008 10:24:24 AM
Looks like it was taken through a Newt. Nice pic, is it one exposure or a stack? Just curious how a traditional DSO astrophoto can fit within the rules of DPC and advanced editing.
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01/01/2008 08:17:28 PM
This is really beautiful! I have no idea how you do this! Outstanding! 8
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01/01/2008 05:25:03 PM
Very nice. You musta have a really, really big lens :)
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01/01/2008 04:54:14 PM
It's sharp, colourful and doesn't suffer motion blur.
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01/01/2008 03:14:47 PM
Wow!
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