Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  41 the01 Ori  ·  43 the02 Ori  ·  De Mairan's nebula  ·  Great Orion Nebula  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  Mairan's Nebula  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1982  ·  Orion Nebula  ·  Sh2-281  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori
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Cradle of Starbirth, Roland Christen
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Cradle of Starbirth

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Cradle of Starbirth

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M42, the Orion Nebula is a massive combination of very young stars embedded in swirling clouds of gas.
This image was taken in one night using a narrowband H-alpha filter. because of the brightness range, the images is made with 3 layers. The inner core consists of 130x10 second exposures. The middle is made from 60x60 second exposures and the faint outer portion used 13x 600 second exposures.

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Cradle of Starbirth, Roland Christen