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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M42 - Orion Nebula, Ed Dixon
M42 - Orion Nebula
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M42 - Orion Nebula

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M42 - Orion Nebula, Ed Dixon
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M42 - Orion Nebula

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Image of M42, the Orion Nebula.   Taken December 8 at 1:18 AM at the iTelescope facility at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. Taken with a Planewave 20" reflector telescope and FLI-PL09000 CCD camera.  Four 120 second exposures, each with a different color filter, processed with GIMP, and Apple software as a color image.

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M42 - Orion Nebula, Ed Dixon