I there a tutorial to step me through stacking and post processing M42

[rtemen]

I have a number of shots of Orion and I would like to learn how to stack and then post process.
All of my shots are such that the picture is all in the nebula.
Meaning, there is no black space.  Many of the tutorials that I have found so far start out with picking a darkest and lightest area to do the calibration.
But, since I have no 'empty space' in my pictures, I do not know how to proceed in processing.
Anyone know of a good tutorial for this kind of job?

Rich

[Geoff]

Have you tried ABE?

[rtemen]

ABE is where you need to select an area that is supposed to be the closest to black like the sky.
My images have the nebula filling my pictures, so there is no area that is really 'black' like the sky around the nebula.
So I picked the 'darkest' area that I could find.
Well, after all was said an done, the resulting pictures looked pretty poor.
Since the nebula fills my picture, should ABE be skipped?

[John_Gill]

Hi,

Have a look a Kayron's Tutorials at http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com these tutorials cover just about everything.

Look up
John