DSO 6 - M42 Orion Nebula

Between the seemingly unending supply of cloud cover I've managed to finally produce another attempt on the Orion Nebula M42.

OTA: WO 72mm Megrez w/ Moonlite Focuser & SkyWatcher FF & LPR Filter

Guiding: TS 9mm OAG w/ Orion starshoot

Mount: HEQ5 Pro w/ EQMOD

Camera: Nikon D3100 14.2mp

ISO: 1600

Lights: 3x60sec

Darks: 15x60sec

Flats: None

Bias: None

Processing: Nebulosity

Post-processing: Photoshop

DSO 1 - First Imaging of the Orion Nebula

As I was dodging clouds here and there, I was only able to take four decent exposures but I was desperate to get my first bit of deep space imaging done. Here are the results:

OTA: 120mm Achromatic Refractor

Camera: Nikon D3100 14.2mp

Mount: CG-4 mount
Exposures: 4

Exposure: 20sec approx

ISO: 800

After consulting the forums, it's clear that I need to know light and dark frames very well. Whatever they are, they may help with my blooming stars, but I think a little more time focusing correctly will help too.

So there it is. First of many.