Got an image last evening of the Orion Nebula that I’m quite satisfied with.

Orion Nebula - M42
Orion Nebula - M42

Technical details

The image is taken with a 200-500mm ƒ/5.6mm lens on a regular tripod. Here’s the setup:

Focal length 200mm
Aperture ƒ/5.6
ISO 8000
Exposure time for light frames 350 * 1s
Dark frames 50
Flat frames 50
Bias frames 50

The raw photos were stacked using DSS, and then post-processed in Siril. First used Photometric Color Calibration to get color correction, then auto stretching with manual tweaking. After that some background extraction, and finally some Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization.