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 Nebula in Orion  ·  Hatysa  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  NGC 1973  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1981  ·  NGC 1982  ·  Sh2-279  ·  Sh2-281  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri  ·  VdB42  ·  VdB44
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M42 from Bartlett Lake, AZ (Reprocessed), Arun H
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M42 from Bartlett Lake, AZ (Reprocessed)

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M42 from Bartlett Lake, AZ (Reprocessed), Arun H
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M42 from Bartlett Lake, AZ (Reprocessed)

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This is a reprocess of my earlier M42 image taken from Bartlett Lake in AZ. The diffraction spikes are from stopping the lens down to f/7.1.

This image shows the true power of imaging at a dark sky site. Taken with a portable tracker and a stock DSLR, it handily shows more detail in the reflection nebula than the image I took from my Bortle 6 backyard with a light pollution filter - a 1.3 hour integration using a camera lens at f/7.1 outperforms a 3.4 hour integration using a cooled monochrome camera with filter wheel and an 80mm f/6 triplet! Dark skies are amazing!!

Link to earlier version: https://astrob.in/384719/

Link to image taken from Wisconsin: https://astrob.in/3qxjkz/

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M42 from Bartlett Lake, AZ (Reprocessed), Arun H