Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Flame Nebula  ·  Great Orion Nebula  ·  IC 426  ·  IC 430  ·  IC 432  ·  IC 434  ·  Lower Sword  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  Mairan's Nebula  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1981  ·  NGC 1982  ·  NGC 2023  ·  NGC 2024  ·  NGC 2064  ·  NGC 2112  ·  Orion B  ·  Orion Nebula  ·  Part of the constellation Orion (Ori)  ·  The star 31Ori  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 56Ori  ·  The star Alnilam (εOri)  ·  The star Alnitak (ζOri)  ·  The star Mintaka (δOri)  ·  The star ιOri  ·  And 4 more.
Orion Wide Field, Didier Kobi
Orion Wide Field
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Orion Wide Field

Orion Wide Field, Didier Kobi
Orion Wide Field
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Orion Wide Field

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Progressing in my PP skills (hopefully) and testing my Canon lenses for astrophotography, this one is shot using the Canon 100mm L Macro f/2.8 which is supposed to be optically excellent as most macro lenses.

Shot at f/3.2 here, I am quite happy with the result even if quite a bit of chromatic aberration is present. 264min integration time plus a short 30min image of the core of Orion Nebula 2 stops darker.

The stacking and stretching part has been done in PixInsight and then Starnet v2 layers (background + stars) exported to Photoshop to do the star reduction which has been fine tuned with custom masks to keep the biggest stars bright. The R canal has also been used to enhance the luminosity. Final correction done in Lightroom.

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Orion Wide Field, Didier Kobi