Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  HD37061  ·  M 43  ·  Mairan's Nebula  ·  NGC 1982

Image of the day 01/28/2023

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    M43, Wolfgang Promper
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    M43

    Image of the day 01/28/2023

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      M43, Wolfgang Promper
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      M43

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      M43
      Although probably on thousands of astroimages I have the feeling we are never really looking at M43 by itself, it´s always just something at the edge of the field when we do M42.
      A couple of days ago I saw a infrared image of M43 and thought it is a great object by itself.
      So I put together some rgb data I had, its just 45min. for each filter, croped the field and rotated it as in any other orientation M42 was too distracting.
      Seeingwise the data was not super perfect and keep in mind the crop is from the edge of the field.
      Anyway I hope you like it.
      Wolfgang

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