From IC 434 to M 42 (PaoloMoroni)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: Great Nebula in Orion · Horsehead nebula · IC 431 · IC 432 · IC 434 · IC 435 · M 42 · M 43 · NGC 1973 · NGC 1975 · NGC 1976 · NGC 1977 · NGC 1980 · NGC 1981 · NGC 1982 · NGC 1990 · NGC 2023 · NGC 2024 · Part of the constellation Orion (Ori) · The star 42Ori · The star 45Ori · The star Alnilam (εOri) · The star Alnitak (ζOri) · The star θ1Ori · The star θ2Ori · The star ιOri · The star σOri

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From IC 434 to M 42

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In the main picture I inserted an old photo taken by me of the Orion Nebula and The Running Man about 2 years ago, revised a bit as an elaboration. I have also included part of my lrgb photo, which I have not yet finished, which takes up the area of the sky between the Flame Nebula and the Horse's Head. I made these two shots with a 600mm / 80mm semiapochromatic refractor brought to 510mm. The rest of the photo I did with a 200mm focal length lens. I used a CCD camera with an integrated filter wheel and equipped with the monochrome kaf 8300 photosensor which, thanks to its rather small pixels, gives me images with great details while using very modest focal lengths.

For the Orion Nebula, The Running Man, the Flame Nebula plus 3 blue nebulae I used the simple lrgb technique. For the rest, it was of fundamental help to have done 30 photos of 30 minutes with a 6nm H alpha filter using the f / 4 telephoto lens, so still very bright.

In the technical data I entered only the shooting time I used using the telephoto lens. If you want to consider also the time of the other 2 photos is this: Orion Nebula 12,2 hours and for the photo not completed 17 hours.

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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
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Star trails
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Distribution of data sources

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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
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Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
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