The star birth clouds of Orion, three panel mosaic (Roy Hagen)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 41 Ori A) · 41 Ori C · 41 Ori D · 41 the01 Ori · 42 Ori) · 42 c Ori · 43 Ori) · 43 the02 Ori · 44 Ori) · 44 iot Ori · 45 Ori · 46 Ori) · 46 eps Ori · 48 Ori · 48 sig Ori · 50 Ori) · 50 zet Ori · Alnilam · Alnitak · B33 · Flame Nebula · Great Orion Nebula · Hatysa · Horsehead nebula · IC 420 · IC 431 · IC 432 · IC 434 · IC 435 · LBN 914 · And 54 more.

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The star birth clouds of Orion, three panel mosaic

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The star birth clouds of Orion
A three-panel mosaic imaged over 16 nights in January, February and March 2022.
So far my longest integration, with more than 30hrs exposure time totally, and 10hrs in each panel.
This region which features (among others), the Horsehead nebula, the Flame nebula, the Great Orion nebula, De Mairans nebula and the Running man nebula is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex and is on of the most active star forming regions we can see in the night sky.
This time I tried to keep the colors less saturated to avoid loss of details due to much color saturation in the red color channel.
I like color saturated images, but even I can see that to much red can kill an image.
The noise level in the panels changes as the seeing condition changes during the 8 weeks it took to complete this journey, and that made the image process challenging.
I also ran into some problems with the Asiair V1camera controller right after latest firmware update, which took some time to solve.
The mount would usually stop tracking after a sub or two or tracked well 10subs.
The mount behaved weird during polar align routine, did som strange moves the wrong direction.
I changed guiding camera, a couple of the usb cables, and flashed the sd card and the mount seem to behave normally for now.
The big rig with the Asiair Pro works perfect.

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RA (top/right)	05h27m48s.27
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RA (bottom/left)	05h47m01s.32

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