Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  42 c Ori  ·  45 Ori  ·  NGC 1973  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1981  ·  Sh2-279  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  Upper Sword  ·  the Running Man Nebula
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The Airwalk Nebula SH2-279 (aka Running Man), HR_Maurer
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The Airwalk Nebula SH2-279 (aka Running Man)

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The Airwalk Nebula SH2-279 (aka Running Man), HR_Maurer
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The Airwalk Nebula SH2-279 (aka Running Man)

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The constellation Orion has so much to offer, but around my location it often remains covered by fog and clouds during winter season. So i decided to utilize even hazy conditions with bad seeing for this motif, which has been waiting on my favourite list for so long. I only got 7 to 9 long exposures per color, and couldnt accomplish any narrowband data for luminance. Maybe i can make up leeway some time this winter.

The Running Man nebula - for me it's the Airwalk Nebula because of its resemblance to a certain brand logo - is located directly next to the much brighter Great Orion Nebula and therefore frequently overlooked. It is a bright reflection nebula with also some emission, located inside the Orion molecular cloud, about 1500 LJ distant, and contains many young stars forming open cluster NGC 1981

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