Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pm

M42 – The Great Orion Nebula Data Collected 12-26-2020 (One Shot Color RGB)

Imaging Rig Architecture	2nd Gen System Architecture
Imaging Rig Configuration	WideField One Shot Color Configuration
Lights	19 @ 600sec (03:10:00)
Bias	50 @ 0.001sec
Darks	35 @ 600sec 25 @ 20sec
Flats	27 @ 20sec
Polar Alignment	00 00′ 20″
Guiding RMS
Camera Gain	N/A
Camera Temperature(C)	-20
Camera Voltage	13.8V
PixInsight Workflow	PixInsight Weighted Batch Process Color Workflow
Seeing (Ex, G, Bad)
Ambient Temp (F)

Latest collection of data of M42 with the 2nd Gen Architecture, ATIK 383L+ Color cooled camera, and RedCat51. Integration time is significantly increased to 3hrs and 10 mins. Also I have started to use calibration frames for Bias, Darks, and Flats to reduce system noise in my image collection worflows.

M42 – The Great Orion Nebula Data Collected 01-26-2020 (One Shot Color RGB)

Imaging Rig Architecture	1st Gen System Architecture
Imaging Rig Configuration	WideField DSLR Configuration
Lights	5 @ 30sec (00:02:30)
Bias	None
Darks	5 @ 30sec
Flats	None
Polar Alignment
Guiding RMS
Camera Gain	ISO800
Camera Temperature(C)	N/A
Camera Voltage	N/A
PixInsight Workflow	PixInsight Weighted Batch Process Color Workflow
Seeing (Ex, G, Bad)
Ambient Temp (F)

Bringing new life to old data: Reprocessed data collected on 01-26-2020 using workflows learned from Inside PixInsight (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series) 2nd ed. 2018 Edition on 12-13-2020

M42 – The Great Orion Nebula Data Collected 01-26-2020 (One Shot Color RGB)

Imaging Rig Architecture	1st Gen System Architecture
Imaging Rig Configuration	WideField DSLR Configuration
Lights	5 @ 30sec (00:02:30)
Bias	None
Darks	5 @ 30sec
Flats	None
Polar Alignment
Guiding RMS
Camera Gain	ISO800
Camera Temperature(C)	N/A
Camera Voltage	N/A
PixInsight Workflow	PixInsight Manual Linear Workflow
Seeing (Ex, G, Bad)
Ambient Temp (F)

My first attempt