Nebula Photos | Orion Nebula (M42) with a DSLR, Start to Finish - Deep Sky Astrophotography @NebulaPhotos | Uploaded December 2018 | Updated October 2024, 16 minutes ago.
Join me as I show you every step of capturing and processing the Orion Nebula (M42) with a DSLR, small telescope, and an iOptron SmartEQ mount. Links/resources here: nebulaphotos.com/resources/m42
This video will show processing with DeepSkyStacker and Adobe Photoshop. If you use GIMP or PixInsight, you can watch up to 01:17:00 and then switch to one of these videos:
PixInsight - youtu.be/RGf5zTUC2MQ
GIMP - youtu.be/fkldylli094

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Astrotech Field Flattener: astronomics.com/astro-tech-at60ed-field-flattener.html
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Table of Contents

00:00 Intro
04:49 Gear choices
26:51 DSLR settings
38:38 Planning with dso-browser.com
47:00 Setting up and imaging
1:04:21 Taking calibration frames
1:09:28 File organization and preparation
1:16:54 DeepSkyStacker
1:31:18 Adobe Photoshop