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 Orion Nebula  ·  Hatysa  ·  Lower Sword  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  Mairan's Nebula  ·  NGC 1973  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1982  ·  Orion Nebula  ·  Sh2-279  ·  Sh2-281  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri  ·  the Running Man Nebula
Orion Nebula M42 with no filters, Michael Mantini
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Orion Nebula M42 with no filters

Orion Nebula M42 with no filters, Michael Mantini
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Orion Nebula M42 with no filters

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Tried to do some imaging even though the moon is only a few days from full. I thought that I would just use my Optolong L-Pro and try to image M42, since it's the brightest DSO from my area. Unfortunately, I realized at the end of the session that I had forgot to install the filter, so the entire imaging session was essentially wide open with not LP or moon mitigation. I was pleasantly surprised though to get this result. This is a convolution of 60sec and 120sec exposures at 0 gain. This was the first time I ran the gain at 0 for this camera, and was happy with the result.

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Orion Nebula M42 with no filters, Michael Mantini