The Great Orion Nebula, Running Man, Flame, Horsehead and dust (Alex)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: Flame Nebula · Great Orion Nebula · IC 420 · IC 431 · IC 432 · IC 434 · Lower Sword · M 42 · M 43 · Mairan's Nebula · NGC 1973 · NGC 1975 · NGC 1976 · NGC 1977 · NGC 1980 · NGC 1981 · NGC 1982 · NGC 2023 · NGC 2024 · Orion B · Orion Nebula · Part of the constellation Orion (Ori) · The star 42Ori · The star 45Ori · The star Alnilam (εOri) · The star Alnitak (ζOri) · The star θ1Ori · The star θ2Ori · The star ιOri · The star σOri · And 2 more.

The Great Orion Nebula, Running Man, Flame, Horsehead and dust, Alex

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This is a picture that I've wanted to capture since taking up astrophotography, even down to getting the little FMA135 with this shot in mind (although there are plenty of other good widefield areas available with that lens too)
Getting this shot was a bit of a nightmare though, firstly I didn't have the camera oriented correctly to get it in a single shot. Rotating the camera would have taken too long in the dark so I went with what I had and tried a two panel mosaic, but wasn't happy with the results.

Next day I rotated the camera, but because the lens (can't really call this little thing a telescope) is so small, I had to leave the OAG where it was, which now meant it was protruding into the corner of the frame causing all sorts of reflections and diffraction patterns. I didn't realise until a couple of weeks later though when I finally had clear skies again.

After ruining another nights worth of images, I moved the stalk of the OAG out as far as I thought I could get away with and tried again.

Finally I got two clear nights about two weeks apart to get this image.

You can see that the OAG is still in the image a little, but I don't think I can move it any further so this will have to do for this winter

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