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Orion Nebula - Trapezium, TSquasar
Orion Nebula - Trapezium
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Orion Nebula - Trapezium

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Orion Nebula - Trapezium, TSquasar
Orion Nebula - Trapezium
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Orion Nebula - Trapezium

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Attempted to acquire the 6 brighter stars of the trapezium cluster while also displaying the details of the surrounding nebula.
Used 51 frames at 0.2 second exposures for the trapezium and 633 frames at 5 seconds per exposure for the nebula.
Removed the stars from the nebula and combined those stars with the short exposure of the trapezium cluster.  
Then added these stars back into the starless nebula within Photoshop.
Took some liberty with color balance to highlight more of the nebula.

The whole process produced fewer faint stars that might otherwise have been seen, but I believe there are 6 stars of the Trapezium visible, though the 6th is barely there.

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Orion Nebula - Trapezium, TSquasar