The Orion nebula - M42 and M43 (Lee)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 41 Ori A) · 41 Ori C · 41 Ori D · 41 the01 Ori · 43 Ori) · 43 the02 Ori · 44 Ori) · 44 iot Ori · De Mairan's nebula · Great Orion Nebula · Hatysa · LDN 1640 · Lower Sword · M 42 · M 43 · Mairan's Nebula · NGC 1976 · NGC 1980 · NGC 1982 · Orion Nebula · Sh2-281 · The star Hatysa (ι Ori · The star Mizan Batil II (θ2 Ori · The star Trapezium (θ1 Ori A · The star θ1 Ori C · The star θ1 Ori D

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The Orion nebula - M42 and M43

I shot this over two nights recently. It's always fairly low up here but this is an easy one to get decent data quite quickly. After positioning the mount to clear a telephone cable and hoping the chimney in the South West wouldn't pipe up after the meridian... it was mainly plain sailing!

I love the bottom right quadrant, that dust, colour and the depth. Elsewhere it's always hard to get depth - hopefully I've got a little. It's obvious why people keep coming back to this in the winter - it's already one of my favourite images.

Thanks for looking

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RA (center)	05h34m57s.61
RA (top/left)	05h33m30s.67
RA (top/right)	05h37m09s.84
RA (bottom/right)	05h36m24s.44
RA (bottom/left)	05h32m45s.58

Dec (center)	-05°31′00″.3
Dec (top/left)	-06°03′54″.8
Dec (top/right)	-05°52′36″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	-04°58′03″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	-05°09′21″.10

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