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Orion Nebula core, up close, lowenthalm

Orion Nebula core, up close

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Orion Nebula core, up close, lowenthalm

Orion Nebula core, up close

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Yeah, I know everyone has an Orion Nebula with better color, less, noisy with much longer exposures, etc. However, the seeing in my backyward was pretty darn good the evening I took this, so I got a good capture of a lot of the central detail around the trapezium, including the dust clouds, box globules and an interesting "negative dust cloud" immediately to the right of the trapezium.

I would have captured more data, but it went behind my house before I got a chance to do much more. Next time!

Update: I noticed in my notes that I was actually using half second exposures (180) for a total of 90 seconds with the goal of separating as many of the trapezium stars, then realized my house would prevent any further captures.

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