kaid59•21d ago

Finally got a decent shot of the Orion Nebula from my backyard

I've been fighting with light pollution and shaky tracking for months. Last night, I stacked 45 two-minute exposures using Siril and the difference is huge. Has anyone else in a suburban area found a good filter that helps with the orange glow?

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3 Comments

the_hayden21d ago

Forty-five exposures sounds like a lot of work for a blurry space cloud.

adamgreen13d ago

It's the same thing with people. You meet someone once, they're just a blur. But you talk to them forty-five times, you start to see the actual shape of who they are. Most folks just don't put in the exposures.

carter.terry20d ago

But that's the whole point, @the_hayden. Each one of those exposures is capturing light that traveled for thousands of years. Stacking them pulls out details our eyes could never see on their own. It turns a faint smudge into a picture full of structure and color.