M42 Orion Nebula (Jim Brown)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: Great Nebula in Orion · M 42 · M 43 · NGC 1976 · NGC 1982 · The star θ1Ori · The star θ2Ori

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M42 Orion Nebula

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M42 Orion Nebula

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Equipement:

Orion Mak-Newt 190mm Telescope

ZWO ASI1600MM-C Camera (cooled to -25C)

Orion Accufocus with Shoestring Astronomy USB controller

Orion ST80 guide scope

Orion Starshoot Autoguider

Polemaster alignment

Atlas Pro Mount

Software:

Sequence Generator Pro

PHD2

Stellarium

EQMOD

PixInsight

Two nights of imaging from Camarillo, CA. Clear skies. I had problems getting EQMOD and SGP to cooperate on meridian auto flip, but that was my mistake getting the mount limits set correctly in EQMOD. PHD2 tracking was good to < 0.6" most of the time and waiting for settling to 0.3 caused sequence abort, so I need to increase that. After combining all the FITS files (no darks yet, just bias) and using some Conner's YouTube tutorial I was able to make an image. Colors and contrast can be improved, but I'm a newbie! I will process it again with dark data and a little more experience with PixInsight, and hopefully will get something with more nuance.

Thanks,

Jim

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