Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  41 the01 Ori  ·  42 c Ori  ·  43 the02 Ori  ·  44 iot Ori  ·  45 Ori  ·  De Mairan's nebula  ·  Great Orion Nebula  ·  Hatysa  ·  IC 420  ·  Lower Sword  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  Mairan's Nebula  ·  NGC 1973  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1981  ·  NGC 1982  ·  Orion Nebula  ·  Sh2-279  ·  Sh2-281  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri  ·  Upper Sword  ·  VdB44  ·  And 1 more.
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M42 Orion and Running Man Nebula, Doug Gray
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M42 Orion and Running Man Nebula

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M42 Orion and Running Man Nebula

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Still a work in progress, as I noticed the next day that the core was saturated. Pretty happy with the rest of the shot though. I didn't even realize the running man nebula was there when I decided to take the shot.

30/10/30 bias/dark/flats - I took new 300" darks prior to the session at around 50 degrees f, and noticed a huge difference in the previous ones I took indoors at 70 degrees f.

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Description: I went back out and gathered 20 60s subs at ISO100 (original was 20 180s subs at ISO800) to fill in the saturated core. I think it's an improvement, but I seem to have added some ringing artifacts to the brighter stars. I could probably fix that with masking or matching levels between the layers, but I think I'm going to call this one done and revisit this target next month with a new camera.

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M42 Orion and Running Man Nebula, Doug Gray