Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Orion, Linda
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This is my first deep sky photo.

The Canon 5D Mk IV with 70-200 f/2.8 IS was riding on a Losmandy GM811G. There were a total of 15 2-minute exposures at 70mm, f/4, ISO 800. Only 11 were usable due to airplanes. The mount was not guided.

Processing was done with PiInsight 1.8.

There are definitely optical aberrations present. This is a crop of the even larger frame but you can see chromatic aberration along some of the stars and what I think is coma towards the corners.

There is a an arc of grayish color that starts on the left side of the frame about the height of m42 and extends downward to the right going between Saiph and Rigel. I don't know if this was real or if this was leftover sky glow or some other artifact.

It always amazes me how many stars there are in the sky that we can't see with the unaided eye. Almost too many to make an aesthetically pleasing image. I tried to tone them down some but there are a lot of stars.

Comments and critiques are welcome! I'd love to learn how to improve.

In the next month I'm planning to add an 80mm refractor, guide scope and guide camera but until then I'll be continuing with just the camera on the mount.

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