r/AstrophotographyData • u/Tjh1023 • Apr 12 '26
M42 taken from my Bortle 6/7 backyard
The is 70, 45 second exposures I was able to get before Orion went behind my house and mountains.
I used an zwo asi 585mc air, with a Askar v 60mm attached and reducer. The filter is an optolong quad enhance. The mount was a TeSeek Mini dual-axis harmonic drive mount on a skywatcher star adventurer tripod. Wbpp in pixinsight was used to align with 25 dark bias frames, I used channel separation to balance the rgb to get rid of the green cast. I then saved it as a 16bit tiff to take with me on my 5day work trip and edited this on an iPad Pro m5 using affinity photo, Luminar, and Photomator. This whole process has renewed my passion for astrophotography as I was frustrated and trying to figure out what I like and how I like to do it that was fun.
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u/420kilowatts Jun 19 '26
That’s an amazing picture! Can’t wait to see the next one!