M42 & NGC 1977

Tone Mapping w/Photomatix Pro 3.2 (64 Bits)

Curves and Levels adjusted w/Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit)

noise filtered w/Noise Ninja 2

3% Digtal noise removal with PSP 12.5

10 Iterations of Richardson–Lucy deconvolution with MaxIm DLv4

M42 cropped stack of 11 images

with an Astronomik CLS Light Pollution Filter

and a stack of 9 images No filter combined with PictureWindow 2.0

Levels and Curves adjusted with PhotoShop CS3

11 Day Old Moon Crop

11 day old Moon

M57 cropped 2 images stacked w/RegiStax 06/21/09

M27 cropped 5 images w/RegiStax

Stack of 11 Images w/Registax 5 Levels and Curves adjusted with PhotoShopCS3

Astronomik CLS Light Pollution Filter

LXD75 mount unguided/eyeball focus

60 and 30 second exposured stacked

Levels and curves adjusted with PhotoShop CS3 extended

M42

M42 No Adjustments