Messier 43 Orion, Remote NM
This is just a single 6 minute sub of M43 taken remotely from New Mexico with iTelescope T3. Although it was a calibrated sub, it had quite a few hot pixels and there were 4 exhaust plumes of a jet passing through it.
I used Cosmetic correction in PixInsight to tidy the hot pixels then Clone Stamp for the jet trails to good effect.
Messier 43 is the emission nebula just above the dark nebula in the centre of the image. It comprises hydrogen gas excited by the central hot star which is emitting large amounts of UV light - this makes the hydrogen glow red/pink at 656.4nm.
There is a suggestion of young stars igniting in the dark nebula near the centre top of the image with orange/red light peeking through the dark cloud.
Messier 43 Orion, Remote NM
This is just a single 6 minute sub of M43 taken remotely from New Mexico with iTelescope T3. Although it was a calibrated sub, it had quite a few hot pixels and there were 4 exhaust plumes of a jet passing through it.
I used Cosmetic correction in PixInsight to tidy the hot pixels then Clone Stamp for the jet trails to good effect.
Messier 43 is the emission nebula just above the dark nebula in the centre of the image. It comprises hydrogen gas excited by the central hot star which is emitting large amounts of UV light - this makes the hydrogen glow red/pink at 656.4nm.
There is a suggestion of young stars igniting in the dark nebula near the centre top of the image with orange/red light peeking through the dark cloud.