Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Great Orion Nebula  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  Mairan's Nebula  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1982  ·  Orion Nebula  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori
M42, Shawn Falchetti
M42
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M42

M42, Shawn Falchetti
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M42

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The Orion Nebula taken with a Nexstar 8SE using the default alt-az mount, a focal reducer and a clip-in UHC filter. Fifty 15-second exposures. A bit of an experiment to see if I could produce decent astropics using the base mount and this was one of the first pictures I took after adding the f/6.3 focal reducer to my kit. There were some tracking issues that resulted in the elliptical stars, but overall I was happy with the color and detail for only 12.5 minutes of exposure time.

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M42, Shawn Falchetti