Greater Orion - Deep Sky West (Deep Sky West (Lloyd))

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: Great Nebula in Orion · Horsehead nebula · IC 432 · IC 434 · M 42 · M 43 · M 78 · NGC 1975 · NGC 1976 · NGC 1977 · NGC 1980 · NGC 1981 · NGC 1982 · NGC 1990 · NGC 1999 · NGC 2023 · NGC 2024 · NGC 2064 · NGC 2067 · NGC 2068 · Part of the constellation Orion (Ori) · The star 31Ori · The star 42Ori · The star Alnilam (εOri) · The star Alnitak (ζOri) · The star Mintaka (δOri) · The star θ1Ori · The star θ2Ori · The star ιOri · The star σOri

Greater Orion - Deep Sky West, Deep Sky West (Lloyd)

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Greater Orion - Deep Sky West

Link: http://www.deepskywest.com

Link to TIFF/FITS: http://www.deepskywest.com

First time combining images from several instruments. Thanks to Roberto C. and Paddy H. for the instruction and idea, respectively.

The base of this image is a widefield of Orion's Belt taken with at Rokinon 135mm f/2 operating at f/2.8. The quality of this lens is impressive. The overall integration of the base image is relatively short. The image scale of the Rokinon+QSI583ws is ~8.35", the FSQ ~2.1". You can see the additional detail in the main DSOs.

The other components of the images are higher resolution versions of the DSO: M78, B33 and M42. Each of there were taken at different times and locations.

M78 = FSQ #1, DSW, January 2016

B33 Luminance = FSQ #2, DSW, January 2016

B33 RGB = FSQ #1, DSW, January 2016

M42 = FSQ #1, Roswell, GA backyard March 2014

PI's powerful Dynamic Alignment routine makes this pretty easy. Once the smaller, more detailed components are registered (and automatically resized) to the base widefield image, Gradient Merge Mosaic stitches the images together seamlessly. Pretty cool process.

I think this is the first of many.

-Lloyd

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