{"id":453,"date":"2015-01-23T19:29:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2015-02-03T18:55:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T18:55:58","slug":"2015-orion-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"2015 Orion Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my latest M42 captured on my Canon 1100D thru a Nexstar 4SE OTA mounted on a HEQ5 Pro. Stacking was done in Deep Sky Stacker and Processing in StarTools. I know it looks very gaudy but I like it. To me, it looks like we are peering thru furnace clouds into the blue white heat of the stellar foundry\u00a0within. There is even a hint of some Pillars of Creation type features around the blue core.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-ST.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-457\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-ST-1024x926.jpeg\" alt=\"m42all good 90 ST\" width=\"695\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-ST-1024x926.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-ST-300x271.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-ST.jpeg 1331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_462\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-ST-core.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"size-full wp-image-462\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-ST-core.jpeg\" alt=\"Pillars of Creation?\" width=\"443\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-ST-core.jpeg 443w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-ST-core-300x283.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-ST-core-24x24.jpeg 24w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pillars of Creation?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Image was composed of 189 lights, 22 darks and 23 biases. All shot at ISO 6400 with 20s for lights and darks and 1\/4000s for biases. Mount was unguided.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>StarTools creator Ivo took pity on my processing efforts and produced the image below from my data. Talk about chalk and cheese. You can see his processing workflow\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/forum.startools.org\/viewtopic.php?f=11&amp;t=696\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-with-bias001-ivo-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-486\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-with-bias001-ivo-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"m42all good 90 with bias001 ivo cropped\" width=\"982\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-with-bias001-ivo-cropped.jpg 982w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42all-good-90-with-bias001-ivo-cropped-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 982px) 100vw, 982px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my latest M42 captured on my Canon 1100D thru a Nexstar 4SE OTA mounted on a HEQ5 Pro. Stacking was done in Deep Sky Stacker and Processing in StarTools. I know it looks very gaudy but I like it. To me, it looks like we are peering thru furnace clouds into the blue <a href='http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=453' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-sky","category-9-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}