Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  41 Ori A)  ·  41 Ori C  ·  41 Ori D  ·  42 Ori)  ·  43 Ori)  ·  44 Ori)  ·  Great Orion Nebula  ·  Lower Sword  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  Mairan's Nebula  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1982  ·  Orion Nebula  ·  The star 45 Ori  ·  The star Hatysa (ι Ori  ·  The star Mizan Batil I (c Ori  ·  The star Mizan Batil II (θ2 Ori  ·  The star Trapezium (θ1 Ori A  ·  The star θ1 Ori C  ·  The star θ1 Ori D  ·  the Running Man Nebula
M42, Stan McQueen
M42
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M42

M42, Stan McQueen
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M42

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This is a "first light" image of M42 taken with my new (new to me, anyway) QHY8 one shot color camera. I'm running my observatory from a new computer and don't have all the guiding parameters set up yet, so this is composed of two 120 second images (guiding works okay for no more than about 120 seconds right now because I haven't characterized the periodic error yet).

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M42, Stan McQueen