Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  41 Ori A)  ·  41 Ori C  ·  41 Ori D  ·  42 Ori)  ·  43 Ori)  ·  44 Ori)  ·  49 Ori)  ·  Great Orion Nebula  ·  IC 420  ·  IC 430  ·  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 45 Ori  ·  The star Hatysa (ι Ori  ·  The star Mizan Batil I (c Ori  ·  The star Mizan Batil II (θ2 Ori  ·  The star Mizan Batil III (d Ori  ·  The star Trapezium (θ1 Ori A  ·  The star θ1 Ori C  ·  The star θ1 Ori D  ·  And 2 more.
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M42 - Orion Nebula, Marc Balston
M42 - Orion Nebula
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M42 - Orion Nebula

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M42 - Orion Nebula, Marc Balston
M42 - Orion Nebula
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M42 - Orion Nebula

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Captured over a couple of nights of patchy cloud (83 frames lost to cloud!).  It was frustrating, but worth persevering.

My main target for the second night was the Rosette Nebula (below), but with the sky looking much clearer than expected I switched mid-session to M42 to capture a few more frames to add the to previous night's collection.

Processing was a pleasure with Russell Croman's tools (BXT,NXT and SXT) and I'm particularly pleased with how the extensive dark dust clouds came out.


Rosette Nebula

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M42 - Orion Nebula, Marc Balston

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Winter 2023-24