M42 Orion Nebula (Denis Dumas)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 41 the01 Ori · 43 the02 Ori · De Mairan's nebula · Great Orion Nebula · M 42 · M 43 · Mairan's Nebula · NGC 1976 · NGC 1982 · Orion Nebula · PGC 3081010 · The star θ1Ori · The star θ2Ori

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M42 Orion Nebula

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M42 Orion Nebula

Was imaging the Cocoon Nebula (see my previous image) but clouds moved in to obscure that region of the sky. The Orion Nebula was up and the sky was still clear in that area so I tried to get as much data on it as I could before the clouds blocked it as well. I managed to get 27 minutes on it, but it is such a bright nebula that the image is not bad.

It still suffers from the same back-focus problem so it will improve!

Was a teaser for more time on this spectacular nebula - next time I will try the mosaic feature of NINA to capture the full nebula in about 6 frames...

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Description: Working on the core of the nebula to bring out detail and and color so it does not look so blown out.

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Astrometry.net job	5096490
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h35m17s.967
RA (top/left)	05h36m51s.652
RA (top/right)	05h33m34s.550
RA (bottom/right)	05h33m44s.186
RA (bottom/left)	05h37m01s.962

Dec (center)	-05°23′22″.70
Dec (top/left)	-05°04′49″.71
Dec (top/right)	-05°08′33″.86
Dec (bottom/right)	-05°41′53″.54
Dec (bottom/left)	-05°38′09″.18

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