Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Great Nebula in Orion  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1982  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri
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M42 LRGB, Paul Kent
M42 LRGB
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M42 LRGB

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M42 LRGB, Paul Kent
M42 LRGB
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M42 LRGB

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Another M42, this time in LRGB. I was wanting to go a little deeper to get the faint dust and gas that lurks in the background. Very short exposures were captured to preserve the trapezium area. Only the best were selected to maintain resolution, in a sort of lucky imaging type technique, despite the use of a CCD not being ideal with higher read noise and longer download times than a CMOS. For a more in depth description about the physics please see the emission line version.

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M42 LRGB, Paul Kent

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