M42 and the Running Man

Scope: William Optics ZS66 Doublet with AstroPhyics 0.67 telecompressor.

Camera: SXV H9F

Mount: Vixen Super Polaris.

Filters: Astronomik CLS and type II RGB.

Conditions: A lot of high cloud with poor transparency meant that a lot of the subs were rejected. Seeing moderate.

Lum 80x30 secs RGB each 40x30 secs

Captured and stacked in Maxim. Transferred to PS CS2 with FITS liberator and processed in CS2 with some use of Noels Actions.

The image could do with reprocessing. There are some dark halos around the stars in the nebula and the compression to jpeg has resulted in clipping.