Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Great Orion Nebula  ·  IC 420  ·  IC 430  ·  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  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star 49Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri  ·  The star υOri  ·  Upper Sword  ·  the Running Man Nebula
Quick Christmas Orion Nebula with DSRL, cheap lens and alt-az mount, Jesco
Quick Christmas Orion Nebula with DSRL, cheap lens and alt-az mount
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Quick Christmas Orion Nebula with DSRL, cheap lens and alt-az mount

Quick Christmas Orion Nebula with DSRL, cheap lens and alt-az mount, Jesco
Quick Christmas Orion Nebula with DSRL, cheap lens and alt-az mount
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Quick Christmas Orion Nebula with DSRL, cheap lens and alt-az mount

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A quick session after all the Christmas celebrations. Popped out my SkyTee2, attached my D3400 with the 20 EUR Sigma 70-300 APO lens at 195mm, focused with a Bahtinov mask on Sirus and then started up the electronics. A quick 5-star align later I was shooting 5s and 30s subs, unguided. That's the easiness of alt-az imaging.

M42 vanished behind trees an hour later.

Simple HDR edit with APP and PixInsight. Still a bit noisy and as a consequence heavily downsampled.

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Quick Christmas Orion Nebula with DSRL, cheap lens and alt-az mount, Jesco

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