I haven't been doing this for very long but this is my absolutely best picture. Caught Orion's belt, Orion's nebula, running man nebula and u can even make out the Flame nebula on top. Zooming in very very faintly u can make you the region of the horsehead nebula and with my setup I thjomm that is crazy.

This is the first time I used a tracker so my polar alignment wasn't the best, any tips welcome (I was having a hard time distinguishing polaris through my scope).

Camera: Nikon D3200 55-300 mm lens

Mount: Sky Watcher Star Adventurer pro

Bortle 5-6

Lights: 130 × 10seconds

Darks: 40

Bias: 35

No flats

Stacked in DSS, stretched in Siril using background extraction, green noise reduction, photometric colour calibration, and manual histogram stretching.

Exposure and saturation adjustments in RawTherapee.

by Impressive_Bid_9533

1 Comment

  1. Nice job! I just took a very similar photo with very similar gear, so I appreciate this comparison. I like the colours you got on Orion!