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M42 and Running Man

www.astrobin.com/245416/

 

 

This image is the combination of different datasources.

The Luminance comes from Eric.

He recorded in Tenerife, with his 350mm F3.3 and FLI16803, the following data:

 

 

L: 15x300s 5x120s 5x10s

RGB: (5, 5, 5)x120s / (5, 5, 5)x60s / (5, 5, 5)x10s

 

 

The color data for M42, M43 and the Running Man come from his filters.

 

 

For the surrounding areas I have used the colors I did in a previous image (www.astrobin.com/156241/B/) which basically came out from

a combination of my APO data and iTelescope:

 

 

APO 80mm/480mm + SBIG8300:

 

 

L: 33x360s

Ha: 21x600s

 

 

iTelescope FSQ106 + SBIG11000:

 

 

RBG: (1, 1, 1)x300s binning 2

 

 

Addional Ha data have been partially (the field of view was not exactly the same) used from DeepSkyWest:

 

 

Ha: 13x1800s / 8x900s

 

 

Copyright: R. Colombari / E. Recurt

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The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion.[b] It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years[3][6] and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.[7]

The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features.[8] The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula.

 

 

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