It was about time for a new M42 picture (Astrochromata)

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 · IC 420 · LBN 963 · LBN 974 · LBN 977 · 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 · And 6 more.

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It was about time for a new M42 picture

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It was about time for a new M42 picture

Thanks to my friend Ed Defesche who did a marvelous job on repairing the crappy background gradient on this image.

I figures I had not done an M42 image since just after I got my scope two years ago so it was about time to do a new version.

Note that I used a single sub length for the full dynamic range of this picture. I binned 2x2 to increase the full well of the 6200mm and it is amazing what this camera can do.

The frame is produced by the "annotation frame" PixInSight script, see my other pictures for a link to the script download.

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h34m56s.31
RA (top/left)	05h35m51s.86
RA (top/right)	05h28m13s.60
RA (bottom/right)	05h33m58s.34
RA (bottom/left)	05h41m40s.80

Dec (center)	-05°12′47″.8
Dec (top/left)	-03°28′31″.10
Dec (top/right)	-04°40′56″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	-06°56′51″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	-05°44′31″.4

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