Blackie's Canon DLSR Images

M42 - The Great Orion Nebula

This shot was taken with my Canon 1000xs using the Nexstar 11GPS telescope with the Hyperstar 3 lens system. One layer of the shot was taken on 2/16/10 under the relatively dark skies of Dewey, Arizona and was a "blended" shot of 50 each of 1, 5, and 10-second subs. The other layer used was a "blended shot of 50 each of 5, 10 and 20-second subs taken on 1/3/10 under the light-polluted skies of Tempe, Arizona. The two layers were then registered using the software program RegiStar 1.0, and stacked as layers using Paint Shop Pro 7.0.