Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Flame Nebula  ·  Great Orion Nebula  ·  IC 426  ·  IC 430  ·  IC 432  ·  IC 434  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  Mairan's Nebula  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1982  ·  NGC 2023  ·  NGC 2024  ·  NGC 2064  ·  Orion B  ·  Orion Nebula  ·  Part of the constellation Orion (Ori)  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star Alnilam (εOri)  ·  The star Alnitak (ζOri)  ·  The star Mintaka (δOri)  ·  The star ηOri  ·  The star ιOri  ·  The star σOri  ·  The star τOri  ·  The star υOri  ·  the Running Man Nebula
Orion, Matt Dieterich
Orion
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The constellation of Orion in the night sky is filled with absolutely beautiful deep-sky objects. When a small telescope and sensitive camera under dark skies is pointed at Orion then many of these objects can be revealed.

In order to bring an exciting amount of depth to Orion I captured a 12-panel mosaic that in total comprises 70-hours of exposure time. I used a Skywatcher 80mm refractor telescope and QHY600 camera (binning 1) with HaLRGB filters from ObsTech in Chile.

This was a team effort and Mike Selby helped me iron out the mosaic stitching to make this final image possible. To give you an idea just how high resolution this mosaic is the final 12-panel dimensions are 26.1 ft x 18.3 ft at 72 DPI. With this 61 MP camera sensor that resulted in a file 22,536 pixels x 15,840 pixels and 17gb when editing. Automation software for capturing the 12-panels was performed with Voyager.

For those interested, here are the final exposure times per filter. Ha: 145 x 10-minutes, L: 294 x 5-minutes, R: 101 x 5-minutes, G: 75 x 5-minutes, and B: 74 x 5-minutes.

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Orion, Matt Dieterich