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M42 and Running Man, smashtie
M42 and Running Man
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M42 and Running Man

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Hard to resist Orion over my back garden, and I wanted to try my 80mm APO on the great nebula. I'm blown away!

The sneaky trick here is that I've run the whole image through a log function to bring out both the blistering hot stars and the wonderful nebulosity. (Thanks Astroart for the "Formula" menu option). The stacking was also done using Entropy Weighted Average method in DSS.

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M42 and Running Man, smashtie