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 Orion Nebula #15, Molly Wakeling
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M42 Orion Nebula #15

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M42 Orion Nebula #15, Molly Wakeling
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M42 Orion Nebula #15

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This one proved rather difficult to process, and I'll definitely revisit it when I learn some new techniques...I'm not very happy with it, but it is kind of cool nonetheless. I used the Ha data to enhance the red channel and be a partial-luminance channel, using PixInsight's NBRGBCombination script. I used HDRComposition to combine the three different exposure times, but it was difficult to stretch properly to maintain that range of contrast, especially when working with the 64-bit images produced by that process.

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M42 Orion Nebula #15, Molly Wakeling