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Great Orion Nebula - M42, Didier Walliang
Great Orion Nebula - M42
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Great Orion Nebula - M42

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Great Orion Nebula - M42, Didier Walliang
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Great Orion Nebula - M42

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Description

Imaging camera: Canon 400D unfiltered, CLS filter

Imaging scope: ASA 10N reflector with Wynne corrector 0.95 x (resulting focal: 900 mm)

Mount: Takahashi EM-400 Temma2

Guiding scope: Orion 80ED f/7.5

Guiding camera: Orion Star Shoot autoguider

Guiding software: PHP Guiding

137 x 30s at 200 ISO

51 bias

16 darks

18 flats

Pre and post processing with PixInsight 1.8.1:

- Pre-processing

- StarAlignment

- DynamicCrop

- ImageIntegration

- DynamicBackgroundExtraction

- BackgroundNeutralization

- ColorCalibration

- HistogramTransformation

- HdrMultiscaleTransform

Location : Société Lorraine d'Astronomie (SLA), Vandoeuvre (Meurthe-et-Moselle - FRANCE), thanks to Alexis, Baptiste, Chedi et Virgile

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Great Orion Nebula - M42, Didier Walliang