Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  41 Ori A)  ·  41 Ori C  ·  41 Ori D  ·  41 the01 Ori  ·  42 Ori)  ·  42 c Ori  ·  43 Ori)  ·  43 the02 Ori  ·  44 Ori)  ·  44 iot Ori  ·  45 Ori  ·  De Mairan's nebula  ·  Great Orion Nebula  ·  Hatysa  ·  LBN 963  ·  LBN 974  ·  LBN 977  ·  LDN 1640  ·  Lower Sword  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  Mairan's Nebula  ·  NGC 1973  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1981  ·  NGC 1982  ·  Orion Nebula  ·  And 12 more.
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M42, Andrew Burwell
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This one took me a few nights to put together. I shot two different exposure lengths at gain 0, 5 minutes and 10 minutes.  5 minutes wasn't quite low enough but you can still make out the 4 stars at the core of the nebula. I did an initial HDR Merge, then three different stretches of the HDR integration to make a custom blend of the three images in photoshop to try and show as much detail as I could. Really amazed at the amount of detail in the nebulosity.

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M42, Andrew Burwell