Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  36 ups Ori  ·  41 the01 Ori  ·  42 c Ori  ·  43 the02 Ori  ·  44 iot Ori  ·  45 Ori  ·  49 d Ori  ·  De Mairan's nebula  ·  Great Nebula in Orion  ·  Hatysa  ·  IC 430  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  NGC 1973  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1981  ·  NGC 1982  ·  NGC 1999  ·  Sh2-279  ·  Sh2-281  ·  Thabit  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star 49Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri  ·  And 3 more.
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The Orion Nebula Region, JDJ
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The Orion Nebula Region

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The Orion Nebula Region

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I've been working on imaging the Orion Constellation and Orion Molecular Cloud Complex over a range of focal lengths the past few months. This is the third of several posts from that project. This image was taken with an Opteka 500 mm mirror lens at F/6.3. The Opteka lens is a super low-cost 'baby SCT' and performs reasonably from my limited trials to date. No replacement for a decent telescope, but fun for filling in intermediate focal lengths between my telephoto lenses and SCT...

This image of the Orion Nebula (M42), M43, the Running Man Nebula, and the surrounding region was taken with a Nikon D750 DSLR and Opteka 500 mm mirror lens at F/6.3 using a Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mini (SAM) mount. This image consists of 72x 30s subs calibrated with dark, flat, and bias frames in DSS. Final image was post-processed using Startools (Binned to 50% of original size, wiped to remove gradients, developed (stretched), contrast adjusted, HDR processed, color adjusted, and noise reduced).

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The Orion Nebula Region, JDJ

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