M42

M42 image taken with an MX7c ccd camera at f3.0 with an 11" Schmidt Cassegrain ! This image is a 7X30second set of exposures using Astroart with Star2000 for guiding. Image was auto aligned and stacked in AA 2.0 then processed using the LRGB routine in AA ! A slight unsharp mask and DDP was applied to the luminance frame to enhance detail before combining with the RGB in the Trichromy window in AA.