Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Barnard's Loop, Rodney Watters
Powered byPixInsight

Barnard's Loop

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Barnard's Loop, Rodney Watters
Powered byPixInsight

Barnard's Loop

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

This is a wide field view of Orion taking in Barnard's Loop. Refer the following text from Wikipedia:

"Barnard's Loop is an emission nebula in the constellation of Orion. It is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex which also contains the dark Horsehead and bright Orion nebulae. The loop takes the form of a large arc centred approximately on the Orion Nebula. The stars within the Orion Nebula are believed to be responsible for ionizing the loop. The loop is at a distance of approximately 1500 light years from earth and about 300 light years across."

Processing of the image required acquisition of 10 minute subs in rgb which were supplemented by 3 minute subs and combined using the HDR Combo tool in Pixinsight. The data from the Ha filter was used as the luminance channel when combining the final image as it presented greater detail. Ha data subs were captured using 30 minute exposures.

Comments

Revisions

  • Barnard's Loop, Rodney Watters
    Original
  • Final
    Barnard's Loop, Rodney Watters
    B

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Barnard's Loop, Rodney Watters