Core of Orion (Todd Stephens)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 31 Ori · 34 del Ori · 36 ups Ori · 41 the01 Ori · 42 c Ori · 43 the02 Ori · 44 iot Ori · 45 Ori · 46 eps Ori · 48 sig Ori · 49 d Ori · 50 zet Ori · Alnilam · Alnitak · B33 · De Mairan's nebula · Great Nebula in Orion · Hatysa · Horsehead nebula · IC 423 · IC 426 · IC 430 · IC 431 · IC 432 · IC 434 · IC 435 · M 42 · M 43 · M 78 · Mintaka · And 41 more.

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After capturing wide-field data on the core of Orion and narrower images of the HH/Flame and Orion nebulae, I thought I would try stacking all the subs at different image scales together for a more detailed wide-field view of the area. The Flame and Horsehead were imaged with my AT60ED scope at 360mm, as well as the Orion Nebula. The background was imaged with a Rokinon 135mm f/2.

I tried setting one of the 360mm subs as the reference to upscale the background, but APP did not like this, and I settled for the 135mm background as the reference, and downscaling the 360mm data.

Unfortunately I didn't have enough widefield data to hold up to the amount of stretching I wanted to do to show more of the background dust, and it got a mottled look to it. So I left it fairly dark, but I think some of the detail is still there.

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RA (center)	05h37m37s.70
RA (top/left)	05h47m46s.90
RA (top/right)	05h29m08s.56
RA (bottom/right)	05h27m21s.32
RA (bottom/left)	05h46m08s.28

Dec (center)	-03°25′38″.4
Dec (top/left)	+00°31′43″.9
Dec (top/right)	+00°46′50″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	-07°23′02″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	-07°37′11″.3

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