Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  41 Ori A)  ·  41 Ori C  ·  41 Ori D  ·  41 the01 Ori  ·  42 Ori)  ·  42 c Ori  ·  43 Ori)  ·  43 the02 Ori  ·  44 Ori)  ·  44 iot Ori  ·  45 Ori  ·  49 Ori)  ·  49 d Ori  ·  Great Orion Nebula  ·  HD294178  ·  HD294179  ·  HD294180  ·  HD294181  ·  HD294206  ·  HD294212  ·  HD294213  ·  HD294215  ·  HD294216  ·  HD294217  ·  HD294218  ·  HD294220  ·  HD294221  ·  HD294222  ·  HD294259  ·  HD294261  ·  And 182 more.
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The Orion Nebula and its fire dust., Nicolas MARTINO
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The Orion Nebula and its fire dust.

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The Orion Nebula and its fire dust., Nicolas MARTINO
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The Orion Nebula and its fire dust.

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Today I share with you probably the most famous and photographed target of each winter: the Great Orion Nebula.
This project exists because we needed to find a target once the first target of the evening (still on processing) was no longer visible, while keeping the same camera orientation.
At the beginning, it was just for fun, but since the first project lasted a long time, I was able to acquire a lot of H-Alpha signal, and then the chance to photograph Orion in color came up.
So this project quickly took an interesting scale...

The acquisition of the H-Alpha signal started in December 2022 and will be realized on 5 sessions to have a total of 260x300s and 150x10s, that is to say almost 22h. All these 5 sessions were done from my home, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, under Bortle 5 SQM 20.35 sky

For the RGB on the other hand, I was able to take advantage of a favorable shooting window mid-February 2023 on 3 consecutive nights. My friend Christophe Vergnes, living under a better sky than me (Bortle 4 SQM21), proposed me to install my setup at his place and to manage it in order to get a quality RGB signal. 
The great class.
I accepted and thanks to his kindness, we have after sorting 300x180s and 200x5s, a little more than 15h.

This being my last project with the Taka FSQ85EDX and ZWO2400MC setup before moving on to the mono camera, I wanted to conclude this chapter by including my two friends Yann Sty and Christophe in the photo processing. 

The mix of our 3 knowledge allowed us to offer you this version of M42, a mix of natural colors with a very red hydrogen Alpha signal, giving a 3D and motion impression to the image.

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