Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  41 the01 Ori  ·  42 c Ori  ·  43 the02 Ori  ·  44 iot Ori  ·  45 Ori  ·  De Mairan's nebula  ·  Great Orion Nebula  ·  Hatysa  ·  LBN 974  ·  LDN 1640  ·  Lower Sword  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  Mairan's Nebula  ·  NGC 1973  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1981  ·  NGC 1982  ·  Orion Nebula  ·  Sh2-279  ·  Sh2-281  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri  ·  Upper Sword  ·  And 1 more.
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M42 Orion with Running Man, JCBaumgartner
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M42 Orion with Running Man

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M42 Orion with Running Man, JCBaumgartner
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M42 Orion with Running Man

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Shot several duration each using L-EXT, Astronomik L-2 and Astronomik Ha 6nm, trying to wrassle core into submission.
Selected:
L-ext [email]35@120s[/email]
L-2 [email]60@30s[/email] for luminance
Ha [email]36@180s[/email]
using ASI294MC Pro and a Stellarvue SVX102T at 520mm.
Processed using AstroPixelProcessor, extracting R,G,B from L-EXT, Ha from Ha. Merged in APP to HaRGB tiff.  Processed LUM using APP as an RGB, converted TIFF in Photoshop to LAB and snatched lightness channel, pasted onto prior APP TIFF as a luminance layer opacity 100% since it looked good and eliminated niggling star halo.
Not wholly pleased with M42 core, but enough for OSC cam.

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M42 Orion with Running Man, JCBaumgartner