Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  41 the01 Ori  ·  42 c Ori  ·  43 the02 Ori  ·  44 iot Ori  ·  45 Ori  ·  De Mairan's nebula  ·  Great Nebula in Orion  ·  Hatysa  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  NGC 1973  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1982  ·  Sh2-279  ·  Sh2-281  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri
yet another m42, Matt Fulghum
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yet another m42

yet another m42, Matt Fulghum
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yet another m42

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Description

another pass at M42. 40x10s exposures, gain 100, Nikon AF-D 180/f2.8

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  • Final
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B

Description: different stacking algorithm. improved contrast and color, IMO.

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C

Description: OK, one more try. This is just raw DSS output, and it looks better than any of the edits I've made.

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D

Description: Fed the output of DSS into Roger Clark's rnc-color-stretch. I'm impressed with the amount of detail it was able to recover.

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E

Description: more fiddling with DSS.

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yet another m42, Matt Fulghum