"ORIN AREA" - Widefield 250mm RGB-HOO (HDR) - Area Constellation Orionis (Thomas ArtOfPix Großschmidt)

"ORIN AREA" - Widefield 250mm RGB-HOO (HDR) - Area Constellation Orionis

"ORIN AREA"
- Widefield 250mm RGB-HOO (HDR)
- Area Constellation Orionis

Messier 42 is probably the best known emission nebula in the winter constellation of Orion. With an aperture of about 1 degree and an apparent magnitude of Mag 4, the nebula is already visible to the naked eye in the night sky, making it one of the brightest objects, next to the moon, in the night sky 🙂

After several months, here is a first intermediate result, First Light with the newly purchased Starwatcher Adventurer GTi mount, for widefield images from the balcony and on the road. Also the 2nd set of images with the Touptek 2600c, which is now over a year old. Equipped with a RedCat51 at 250mm, captured in RGB (UVIRCut) and Duo Narwoband with the Optolong L-Extreme 2". Stars from the RGB master, fog combined with RGB and DuoNB images. Finishing as HDR, but it still needs a few short exposures to resolve the trapezium nicely, or I didn't pay attention during processing (I think it will be) - it was just a test shot anyway, to get to know the GTi and to warm up to astrophotography again :-)
128x 1s / 64x 10s / 32x 180s RGB
64x 5s / 32x 30s / 16x 600s Duo Narrwoband Optolong L-Extreme 2"

Mount Starwatcher Adventurer GTi, Guiding MGEN3

Shooting conditions:
Taken on 2 reasonably clear nights with mediocre seeing, directly from the city with a Bortle 7 sky and significant light pollution.

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Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

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Backyard
Traveller
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Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
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RA (center)	05h37m59s.99
RA (top/left)	05h30m48s.51
RA (top/right)	05h31m07s.30
RA (bottom/right)	05h45m15s.14
RA (bottom/left)	05h44m51s.64

Dec (center)	-03°51′45″.7
Dec (top/left)	-01°26′09″.4
Dec (top/right)	-06°21′09″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	-06°17′10″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	-01°22′20″.8

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