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
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Orion Nebula high resolution, Dean Fournier
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Orion Nebula high resolution

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Orion Nebula high resolution, Dean Fournier
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Orion Nebula high resolution

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This is an HDR image, composed of 57x8m, 50x30s, and 20x5s exposures. The colours are as they arrived on the sensor of my Canon 6D. I did not change the colour balance, though I did increase the saturation. It is one of the very few areas of the sky that has a greenish hue. Wikipedia explains what causes this unusual colour here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula

Data was acquired in western Arizona in January and Feburary 2020, when conditions allowed. It is fairly high resolution, and can be zoomed quite a bit to look around. My favourite part is the lower area below the core...the ragged dust and gas cloud tendrils that are glowing red.

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Orion Nebula high resolution, Dean Fournier