Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Great Orion Nebula  ·  IC 420  ·  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  ·  The star 42Ori  ·  The star 45Ori  ·  The star θ1Ori  ·  The star θ2Ori  ·  The star ιOri  ·  Upper Sword  ·  the Running Man Nebula
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M42 in Bortle 9, Minh Lết
M42 in Bortle 9
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M42 in Bortle 9

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M42 in Bortle 9, Minh Lết
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M42 in Bortle 9

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Great Orion Nebula in Bortle 9

About 30 hours of integration time on M42. An easy target for beginner but also poses enough challenging problems for experienced ones. M42 is especially challenging for me since I am imaging from a Bortle 9 area with a 50 stories LED tower standing 100m from the imaging site and I wanted to get those dimly lit dust lane. The gradient of the subs is so rampant that DBE alone took me a good 2 hours of processing. A lot still can be desired from this ( particularly star color and Huygenia regions color) but I suppose I would go back later with another revision to address those.

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M42 in Bortle 9, Minh Lết