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 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
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Flame, Horsehead, Running Man and Great Orion Nebulae widefield, DustSpeakers
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Flame, Horsehead, Running Man and Great Orion Nebulae widefield

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Flame, Horsehead, Running Man and Great Orion Nebulae widefield

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6 Jan 2020 - Moon waxing gibbous 80%

There were just a few hours gap in seemingly perpetual clouds, so I quickly set up my "lightweight" kit:

- Ioptron Skytracker Pro

- William Optics Redcat 51 - 250mm, f/4.9

- Canon 550D (unmodded) [T2i]

- Astronomik CLS filter.

With the wide field of view I targetted the Flame, Horsehead, Running Man and Great Orion Nebulae all in the same frame and managed about 90 x 60s @ ISO 1600 before the clouds came rolling in again. By the time it had cleared Orion had disappeared behind the neighbour's house. C'est la vie!

Given the 80% Moon in the same vicinity as Orion, and that there were still some Christmas lights out in the neighbourhood, and for such a short integration time I'm reasonably happy with the result, bearing in mind my DSLR is unmodded and so the signal from the Ha around the Horsehead is poor. This is work in progress and I'll hopefully add in some more data and Ha from my ZWO mono camera and Ha filter at some stage in the future.

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