Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Great Nebula in Orion  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1982  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri
M 42 - revisited, ErklueAstro
M 42 - revisited
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M 42 - revisited

M 42 - revisited, ErklueAstro
M 42 - revisited
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M 42 - revisited

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  • M 42 - revisited, ErklueAstro
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B

Description: The dust background is now worked out better. That means, more details in the background are now visible. Maybe this is not a "classical" or most beautiful image of M 42. But in my opinion it is more interesting.

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C

Description: I made parts of the background darker which do not include dust followed by a slight smoothing and de-noising.

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D

Description: Slightly sharpened version.

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E

Description: Now I did the complete stacking process in PixInsight plus postprocessing and put more care in acquiring better calibration frames (bias & flat)

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M 42 - revisited, ErklueAstro