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  ·  IC 420  ·  LBN 963  ·  LBN 974  ·  LBN 977  ·  LDN 1640  ·  Lower Sword  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  Mairan's Nebula  ·  NGC 1973  ·  NGC 1975  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1980  ·  NGC 1981  ·  NGC 1982  ·  Orion Nebula  ·  Sh2-279  ·  Sh2-281  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  And 5 more.
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M42 The great Orion nebula, AcmeAstro
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M42 The great Orion nebula

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M42 The great Orion nebula

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M42, The Great Orion Nebula. January 2022
My first every narrow-band capture of this incredible target. Captured during a nearly full moon with heavy haze. The core of the nebula is called the Trapezium and is quite a challenge to process without being totally blown out. This data represents around 5 hours of imaging at 60 seconds per sub on the RASA 8. I will capture additional data in extremely short segments then normalize and combine the shorter subs to bring out more detail in the Trapezium 
On a very clear night you may be able to resolve all 6 stars. Two of these stars in the cluster are binary.

120x60 Ha
60x60 SII
100x60 OIII

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M42 The great Orion nebula, AcmeAstro

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