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I’ve been sitting on this one for several months frustrated over a couple of things, but posting it means I can move on and work on other stuff

These are the Great Orion (top right) and Horsehead (bottom left) Nebulas — two very famous objects, but you don’t always get to see them framed together. I like this angle a fair bit! They are both part of the Orion Molecular Cloud complex — a positively gigantic star formation region in our galactic backyard — only 1200 or so light years away. While other objects I’ve shot are views so far back in time they may predate civilization and possibly even humanity, when this light left its source, you can look up which Pope was alive that year on Wikipedia.

The Orion Nebula core is an absolute star creation powerhouse, blasted to white hot light by eight very young stars each around 15 to 30 solar masses in size and only a light year or two away from each other (the nearest star to us other than the sun is 4.5 LY away. This ‘powerhouse’ has been why I’ve been working on it so long—it’s so bright it blows out very easily. I settled on letting its glow look more or less as is—let it be bright this time around. I took exposures that were simply too long for its brightness, and will definitely try again with shorter shots next year. For now, this is pretty good and true enough to how brilliant it is.

Broadband shot at Hovatter North, west of Phoenix. Narrowband shot in my Phoenix backyard.

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