After seeing Darryl's fantastic photo of M42 I'm rather embarrassed to show you my effort, but perhaps you could give this novice some advice?
This photo of M42 was taken last night, seeing was pehaps a bit hazy with almost a half Moon. It was taken with a Meade LX90/3.3 Reducer and Meade DSI. The scope on a wedge but as you see by star trails not very well aligned (I need to practice star drift more!!). I took 60x30sec exposures and stacked with Registax,post processing was a bit of try it and see
,at the moment I dont understand all of it!!.
My picture seem's a bit dark and lacking in colour, should I have used longer exposures or shorter exposures and more frame's??
Hope you can give your expert advice as one day I'd like to take a photo that would not look out of place in the gallery.
Thanks Dave
