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Running Man and De Mairan's Nebulae, Steve Milne
Running Man and De Mairan's Nebulae
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Running Man and De Mairan's Nebulae

Running Man and De Mairan's Nebulae, Steve Milne
Running Man and De Mairan's Nebulae
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Running Man and De Mairan's Nebulae

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Description

This is a two panel mosaic of the Running Man nebula (NGC 1977) and De Mairan's (Messier 43. NGC 1982) nebula in Orion. These objects are to be found some 1,400 light years from Earth.

Data for this image was collected between 19 November 2020 and 16 January 2021 from a rig in Spain that is privately owned and operated by Barry Wilson and me.

Capture details are as follows:

Telescope: TEC 140

Camera: QSI 690

Filters: Astrodon

Mount: 10 Micron GM2000HPS

Lum: 72 x 600s

Lum: 24 x 60s

Lum: 24 x 15s

Red: 60 x 300s

Green 60 x 300s

Blue: 60 x 300s

A total of 27 hours and 30 minutes exposure.

In addition to the above, I borrowed some of the Ha from our widefield M42 image here:

Data: Steve Milne & Barry Wilson

Processing: Steve Milne

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Running Man and De Mairan's Nebulae, Steve Milne