Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  41 the01 Ori  ·  42 c Ori  ·  43 the02 Ori  ·  44 iot Ori  ·  45 Ori  ·  De Mairan's nebula  ·  Great Nebula in Orion  ·  Hatysa  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  NGC 1973  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1981  ·  NGC 1982  ·  Sh2-279  ·  Sh2-281  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri  ·  VdB44
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M42 - The Orion Nebula, Michel Makhlouta
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M42 - The Orion Nebula

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M42 - The Orion Nebula

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The famous Orion Nebula, Messier 42, Orion's sword, and the first target for anyone who's got this nebula in their night sky, being an astrophotographer or a visual astronomer. That being said, this is the most intimidating DSO.

I've had other plans for this, despite putting it off and trying to ignore it. I've had diagonal noise on the left side of the image, still trying to figure out that part. And my planned HDR and Ha went south when my 3rd weekend night didn't go hand in hand with the clouds.

I have recently moved to a macbook for processing post stacking and the linear stage of processing, since I've discovered that my main rig (gaming laptop) is way off when it comes to monitor calibration.

Clear Skies!

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B

Description: lighter background, desaturated the nebula even further

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Description: lighter background, without any saturation changes

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D

Description: reprocessed from scratch, tried to maintain the colors as much as possible, i think

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M42 - The Orion Nebula, Michel Makhlouta