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
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M42 in HOO-RGB with 1 second exposures in narrowband, 15 seconds RGB, Uwe Deutermann
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M42 in HOO-RGB with 1 second exposures in narrowband, 15 seconds RGB

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M42 in HOO-RGB with 1 second exposures in narrowband, 15 seconds RGB, Uwe Deutermann
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M42 in HOO-RGB with 1 second exposures in narrowband, 15 seconds RGB

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Inspired by Johny's attempt to image M42 with very short exposures I decided to try the same and see what I can come up with. Well, the roundness of stars was of course magnificent (naturally 😊), and I can make out the Trapezium when I zoom in on the image, that is great. At 400/360mm the resolution is as expected not comparable to the higher focal lengths. Was an interesting project though, and when the moon is up and shiny it was a good try. I did not use any flats, darks, etc in the processing, and I did not use any guiding either, which was kind of unusual.

I combined the final image with another RGB image (60 seconds exposure times) and overlayed them appropriately.

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