The Great Orion Nebula - M42 (Brett Kozma)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: Great Nebula in Orion · M 42 · M 43 · NGC 1973 · NGC 1975 · NGC 1976 · NGC 1977 · NGC 1980 · NGC 1982 · The star 42Ori · The star 45Ori · The star θ1Ori · The star θ2Ori · The star ιOri

The Great Orion Nebula - M42, Brett Kozma

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The Great Orion Nebula - M42

This is probably the most famous astronomy object there is, the Great Orion Nebula, or, M42. This is a massive star forming region about 1,300 light years from Earth. It's one of the brightest nebulae in our night sky and that along with its inherent beauty make it one of the most often photographed object out there. I have imaged this object before and, in fact have a print of that image on my wall right now. I hate that image and I hate that print, so I wanted to do it again, but right this time. This is only a bit more than 2 hours of data (shows how awesome and bright this object is), but that was more than enough to do what I wanted, which was to represent the many different structures in true color, without saturating or blowing anything out. I'm pretty happy with the result, I like this iteration MUCH better than my 2018/2019 one, and I hope you like it as well.

Technical Details:

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Imaging Scope: 115mm Meade 6000 Triplet Apo

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI071MC Pro

Guiding Telescope: William Optics 50mm Guider

Guiding Camera: ZWO ASI 120MC Mini

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-6R Pro

Filters: Optolong UV/IR Cut

Capture Software: Sequence Generator Pro

Processing Software: Astro Pixel Processor, Pixinsight and Photoshop

Exposures

65 x 120s UV/IR Cut

Total of 2.16hrs

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