M42 Orion nebula

Great nebula in Orion constellation. It is a multiple nebulas region. On the left side on the photo is Sh2-279, named “Running man nebula”. On the right is a massive Messier 42, brightest and closest star formation cloud to the Earth.

 

All the image data was captured during 4 separate nights from my backyard home observatory. As this region is rather too big for my telescope focal length and for my DSLR sensor size, i decided to built 2 panels mosaic to show both nebulas in more adequate frame size. Two stacks of images are joined in the middle (left and right) + very bright M42 core captured with shorter expositions so that details could be visible.

 

Captured: Nov 12 and 26, Dec 6 and 7, 2018.

Location: AO Nostromo, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia

Telescope: SkyWatcher MN190/1000

Mount: SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6 GT

Camera: DSLR Canon 450D (full spectrum)

Frames: Left segment: 69x360" Right segment: 23x360" Core: 42x20"

Exposure: 9.5h

Software: PHD2; BackyardEOS; PixInsight; Photoshop

 

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