Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Great Orion Nebula  ·  IC 420  ·  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  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri  ·  Upper Sword  ·  the Running Man Nebula
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M42 The Great Nebula in Orion, TStew
M42 The Great Nebula in Orion
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M42 The Great Nebula in Orion

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M42 The Great Nebula in Orion, TStew
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M42 The Great Nebula in Orion

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Orion, my first nebula I've imaged! I'm still pretty new and using modest photography equipment but happy how this turned out. I closed the aperture just slightly to f6.3 to get the diffraction spikes on the stars, I know some don't like this effect but I like how it turned out. I will attempt it again some time with more data, guiding, dithering, and attempt to do an HDR to get more details of the core, maybe without the diffraction spikes next time.

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M42 The Great Nebula in Orion, TStew