Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  36 Ori)  ·  36 ups Ori  ·  41 Ori A)  ·  41 Ori C  ·  41 Ori D  ·  41 the01 Ori  ·  42 Ori)  ·  42 c Ori  ·  43 Ori)  ·  43 the02 Ori  ·  44 Ori)  ·  44 iot Ori  ·  45 Ori  ·  49 Ori)  ·  49 d Ori  ·  Great Orion Nebula  ·  HD294150  ·  HD294151  ·  HD294157  ·  HD294158  ·  HD294159  ·  HD294162  ·  HD294163  ·  HD294164  ·  HD294165  ·  HD294167  ·  HD294168  ·  HD294169  ·  HD294170  ·  HD294171  ·  And 315 more.
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M42 and molecular clouds, Peter Robertson
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M42 and molecular clouds

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M42 and molecular clouds, Peter Robertson
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M42 and molecular clouds

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Backyard photo from a SA star tracker, Canon 400mm lens and canon Ra. I have been looking forward to my first attempt M42. This is the result. Its a wider field than usually seen because thats the longest focal length I have, but also I was happy with the result and didnt want to crop. This gives more emphasis to the stars and particularly surrounding clouds. A more conventional framing, though still wide, mild cropped verson is in the shown in the revisions. I used  14 hours of 2 minute frames, and half an hour of 20 second frames for the core. I also collected 6 hours of Ha but in the end only used this to marginally improve definition. A lot of time spent in processing on  starfields particularly trying to control the star size and colour. Comments most welcome.

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