Ok, so not the best looking image of the Orion Complex but is a good one to show what processing can do. This is a first try with the technique i recently learnt / came across a tutorial on processing orion nebula by Ian Norman from Lonely Speck (
http://www.lonelyspeck.com/) and was amazed to see what could be done.
I went out last night with Jonathan and unfortunately i forgot my iOptron Ballhead, so could not attach it to my ZEQ25, so had to borrow jonathan's iOptron skytracker. I shot around 1min x 30 images, of which i used only 26. These shots were taken from Warkworth.
The following image shows the Barnard's loop, Flame Nebula, Horsehead Nebulae, Witch's Nebula, Witch Head Nebula, The Orion and Running man nebula. The images also shows the illumination caused by the supergiant star "Rigel" which is also the source of illumination for Witch head nebula.
The orion complex is between 1,500 and 1,600 light-years away and is hundreds of light-years across. t is also one of the most active regions of stellar formation that can be seen in the night sky, and is home to both protoplanetary discs and very young stars. The nebula is also very bright in the infrared wavelengths due to the heat-intensive processes involved in the stellar formation, although the complex contains dark nebulae, emission nebulae, reflection nebulae, and HII regions.
The following image was median stacked and processed in Photoshop. Total exposure is 1min x 26 = 26 min.
Exif: 60sec, ISO 1600, f2.8, 50mm using Canon 50mm on Canon 6D
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