M42 - The Heart of Orion (Oliver Czernetz)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 41 Ori A) · 41 Ori C · 41 Ori D · 43 Ori) · Great Orion Nebula · M 42 · M 43 · Mairan's Nebula · NGC 1976 · NGC 1982 · Orion Nebula · The star Mizan Batil II (θ2 Ori · The star Trapezium (θ1 Ori A · The star θ1 Ori C · The star θ1 Ori D

M42 - The Heart of Orion , Oliver Czernetz

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M42 - The Heart of Orion

M42 - The Heart of Orion

M42 is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt, and one of the brightest nebulae visible to the naked eye in the night sky.

This is a true Hybrid Image, made out of Data from POSS-II (R, B), The Hubble Space Telescope (R, G, B) as well as RGB Amateur Data, captured by myself using a 8" Newtonian and a unmodded Canon EOS 1000D.

Mount: HEQ5. Guiding: Lacerta MGEN2.

Image Assembly & Processing: Oliver Czernetz.

Software: Fits Liberator, Deep Sky Stacker, Registar, Photoshop CS5.

Data Courtesy: POSS-II, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Oliver Czernetz

(The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II) was made by the California Institute of Technology with funds from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman Kodak Corporation.)

(Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA), the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA) and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA).)

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