Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Great Nebula in Orion  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  NGC 1973  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1982  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori
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Orion / Running Man Nebulas, rdk_CA
Orion / Running Man Nebulas
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Orion / Running Man Nebulas

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Orion / Running Man Nebulas, rdk_CA
Orion / Running Man Nebulas
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Orion / Running Man Nebulas

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I have seen other users have success with planetary cameras on brighter deep sky objects and I wanted to give this a try on the Orion nebula. My original intention was to acquire several hours of data at different exposure lengths, but it was so bitterly cold at my imaging location (near Lake Tahoe, CA in late December) that my laptop battery lasted less than 1 hour. With this in mind, I only was able to get 30 minutes of data consisting of 30 second exposures (with no darks or flats.) I used SharpCap to control the image acquisition, using a gain setting of 0. I am new to this camera, so I am sure there are more optimal settings! This particular target gave me a chance to learn HDR stretching in PixInsight also.

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Orion / Running Man Nebulas, rdk_CA