Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Flame Nebula  ·  Great Orion Nebula  ·  IC 420  ·  IC 423  ·  IC 426  ·  IC 431  ·  IC 432  ·  IC 434  ·  Lower Sword  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  Mairan's Nebula  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1981  ·  NGC 1982  ·  NGC 2023  ·  NGC 2024  ·  NGC 2064  ·  NGC 2067  ·  NGC 2071  ·  Orion B  ·  Orion Nebula  ·  Part of the constellation Orion (Ori)  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star Alnilam (εOri)  ·  The star Alnitak (ζOri)  ·  And 7 more.
Orion and Friends (M42), radon199
Orion and Friends (M42)
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Orion and Friends (M42)

Orion and Friends (M42), radon199
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Orion and Friends (M42)

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With winter in British Columbia in full force there has not been a lot of clear skies to image. This was taken over 3 days that happened to have clear periods, although the last day was pretty hazy so I missed out on some integration time.

Framing was a challenge to make sure M78 was included. In the end I cropped away very little for this image, resulting in some low signal areas but I wanted to keep them included for the maximum view.

This was also my first image using auto guiding allowing me to take 120 second images which was about the max I could do at this amount of light pollution.

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Orion and Friends (M42), radon199