Flame, Horsehead, and M42/NGC 1973/5/75, Round 2 (greenbbs)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: Great Nebula in Orion · Horsehead nebula · IC 431 · IC 432 · IC 434 · IC 435 · M 42 · M 43 · NGC 1973 · NGC 1975 · NGC 1976 · NGC 1977 · NGC 1980 · NGC 1981 · NGC 1982 · NGC 1990 · NGC 1999 · NGC 2023 · NGC 2024 · Part of the constellation Orion (Ori) · The star 42Ori · The star 45Ori · The star Alnilam (εOri) · The star Alnitak (ζOri) · The star θ1Ori · The star θ2Ori · The star ιOri · The star σOri

Flame, Horsehead, and M42/NGC 1973/5/75, Round 2, greenbbs

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Flame, Horsehead, and M42/NGC 1973/5/75, Round 2

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Flame, Horsehead, and M42/NGC 1973/5/75, Round 2

The rough product of 12/28/14's escapades in imaging

Taken with a stock Sony A6000, this widefield image of the area from the Flame Nebula to the Great Nebula in Orion encompasses ~51 minutes of imaging.

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Sony A6000 with Sigma 70-200mm f2.8 lens at f5.6, ~300mm equivalent

ISO 800

34 images x 90 seconds (1 minute, 45 seconds)

No darks, flats, or biases.

Stacked and registered in PixInsight

Processed in Photoshop and Lightroom.

Overall, not too shabby. I'm still extremely suprised at how much H-a the stock Sony picked up, considering it's only 51 minutes of integration time or so. There's great detail in the Flame Nebula and you can see a very clear Horsehead. There is also a ton of nebulosity in M42/43/NGC 1973/5/7.

As for the aberrations on the corners, the stars are pretty sharp with very slight tracking errors and round towards the center, but I think that the corners are due to the lens I'm using rather than entirely due to tracking errors. I've got an autoguider coming soon (QHY5L-II plus an Orion 50mm guidescope), so that should help sort out some of the errors due to tracking, but overall, pretty pleased!

Let me know what you all think!

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