Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Great Nebula in Orion  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  NGC 1973  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1981  ·  NGC 1982  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri
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The Orion Nebula, Shannon Calvert
The Orion Nebula
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The Orion Nebula

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The Orion Nebula, Shannon Calvert
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The Orion Nebula

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Arguably one of my best images to date was the Orion Nebula from the Connecticut Star Party last year, however it was a tight fit in my 115mm APO and consisted of only 1/2 hour of data. This year I have a wider field refractor available (minus the dark skies of Goshen) and, after a botched focus that cost me a full night, I was able to give it more exposure time.

I tried a different processing workflow here that left a somewhat mottled background, but I was happy to pull out much of the surrounding dark nebula (not easy this close to New York City). A second group of very short exposures was added to hold detail around the Trapezium.

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The Orion Nebula, Shannon Calvert