I am sure there is a more proper area, but I will show off my noob Astrophotographer status by not knowing it.... 
I had stopped just outside the Petrified Forest National Park with the intent of doing Deep Space Astro. So I got there and set my gear up. The skies there were so dark, it was really awesome. I captured the Andromeda Galaxy, then the Rosette Nebula (which I posted already) and then the area around Orion.
I have tried this image before and didn't really care for my results. So as I was imaging that night and I was hoping to stay at 300mm on my 150-600mm lens, that area popped up as a great area to try again. One of the things that I enjoyed the most about this image is how the Flame Nebula turned out. That's the most colorful it has been in my limited captures of it. So for me, that's the highlight of this image. One of the challenges anytime you image Orion is that the core of the Orion Nebula is very bright and blows out when imaging it. So usually we take underexposed images of it (which I did) to blend into it later on if needed. I ended up finding the perfect compromise, so while it was blown out, I was able to recover it in Photoshop.
60 Lights @ 60 secs, ISO 800, f5.6
10 Darks
20 Flats
30 Bias
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Photoshop
SkyGuider Pro - Tracking
Nikon D850 - Unmodified
Tamron 150-600mm @300mm
All comments are welcome,
Jim
From Upper Left to Lower Right.... Flame Nebula, Horsehead Nebula, Running Man Nebula, Orion Nebula
I had stopped just outside the Petrified Forest National Park with the intent of doing Deep Space Astro. So I got there and set my gear up. The skies there were so dark, it was really awesome. I captured the Andromeda Galaxy, then the Rosette Nebula (which I posted already) and then the area around Orion.
I have tried this image before and didn't really care for my results. So as I was imaging that night and I was hoping to stay at 300mm on my 150-600mm lens, that area popped up as a great area to try again. One of the things that I enjoyed the most about this image is how the Flame Nebula turned out. That's the most colorful it has been in my limited captures of it. So for me, that's the highlight of this image. One of the challenges anytime you image Orion is that the core of the Orion Nebula is very bright and blows out when imaging it. So usually we take underexposed images of it (which I did) to blend into it later on if needed. I ended up finding the perfect compromise, so while it was blown out, I was able to recover it in Photoshop.
60 Lights @ 60 secs, ISO 800, f5.6
10 Darks
20 Flats
30 Bias
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Photoshop
SkyGuider Pro - Tracking
Nikon D850 - Unmodified
Tamron 150-600mm @300mm
All comments are welcome,
Jim
From Upper Left to Lower Right.... Flame Nebula, Horsehead Nebula, Running Man Nebula, Orion Nebula
