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Great Orion Nebula M42, Otto Vehviläinen
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Great Orion Nebula M42, Otto Vehviläinen
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This was my second attempt at M42, roughly nine months after I tried it as the first ever deep space target with questionable results. I had to throw out about half of the data for the night when this was acquired as there was a lot of light cloud cover. I was interested in how the remaining data would play out, so I ended up stacking it anyway and after playing around with the result a bit ended up processing it fully, as it was surprisingly good. 

This was short exposures (30s and 60s) on almost full moon and pretty low over light pollution. I'll need to try one version with separated stacking and registration for the RGB channels, as the target's height is not that much which results in color fringed stars.

But overall, very happy with all the progress in the last year since starting the hobby.

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Great Orion Nebula M42, Otto Vehviläinen

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