M42 Orion Nebula
The bright core of the Orion Nebula can be seen with the naked eye, even from cities, as the fuzzy middle star in Orion's sword. In the winter I use it to help align my telescopes because it is such a bright and distinctive target, and every once in a while it is hard to resist imaging to bring out the full shape and colors of the nebula -- generating something now familiar but a completely different sight than we experience even through a moderately powerful telescope.
Tech Stuff: TV-85 telescope on Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount; ZWO ASI1600 MC astro cam; Astronomik CLS filter; 20 minutes of 8 second exposures + 4 minutes of 2 second exposures, stacked live in SharpCap; HDR processing in PixInsight. From my yard 10 miles north of New York City.
M42 Orion Nebula
The bright core of the Orion Nebula can be seen with the naked eye, even from cities, as the fuzzy middle star in Orion's sword. In the winter I use it to help align my telescopes because it is such a bright and distinctive target, and every once in a while it is hard to resist imaging to bring out the full shape and colors of the nebula -- generating something now familiar but a completely different sight than we experience even through a moderately powerful telescope.
Tech Stuff: TV-85 telescope on Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount; ZWO ASI1600 MC astro cam; Astronomik CLS filter; 20 minutes of 8 second exposures + 4 minutes of 2 second exposures, stacked live in SharpCap; HDR processing in PixInsight. From my yard 10 miles north of New York City.