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Orion wide field, Johannes D. Clausen
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Orion wide field

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Orion wide field

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Uploading this image despite not being particularly happy with the outcome. The Moon was 68% illuminated and the the wind was 20-25 m/s, hence the choice of narrowband and a wide field setup. 5 hours of data captured at f/2.8 of this relatively bright target, nevertheless it's quite noisy. Also, some weird diagonal banding going on. I did a 40-min take of the same target with the same setup last year (https://www.astrobin.com/az4orz/), and I actually like that image better. Perhaps I should have gone for shorter exposures (the M42 core is obviously burnt out). Perhaps I was too optimistic with the Moon being so bright and close by. Perhaps the seeing just wasn't very good that night. Well, I guess I'll have another go next year...

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