Guillermo_Scheidereiter
Orion
“Question me then, my Oinos, freely and without fear. Come! we will leave to the left the loud harmony of the Pleiades, and swoop outward from the throne into the starry meadows beyond Orion, where, for pansies and violets, and heart's—ease, are the beds of the triplicate and triple—tinted suns.”
Edgar Allan Poe
If you are in the southern hemisphere you will immediately recognize the Orion Constellation in this very modest image and, if you are in the northern hemisphere, you will surely say: "Orion, the hunter, with his head down." The truth is that, wherever you are, you will agree that Orion is one of the most beautiful constellations in the sky. In my childhood I was taught to see it as a sword made of precious stones and, since then, I always saw it that way: the M42 nebula is the hilt, the Three Marys - Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka -, the guard of the sword and the group of stars that forms the head of the hunter, down in the image, where the star Meissa, the tip of the sword's blade, is located.
This constellation has magnificent treasures, such as the IC 434 nebula, which, in contrast, allows us to see the dark Horsehead nebula, the emission nebula NGC 2024 (known as the Flame nebula), the Witch's Head (IC 2118) and the queen of the constellation, M42 (just to name a few of the best known). Do you want to take on the challenge of finding them in the image? Four beautiful stars complete the dazzling scene: Rigel (the brightest), Bellatrix, Betelgeuse (the orange star of the constellation) and Saiph.
I captured this simple image with my Nikon D5600 camera, Nikon 18-55mm lens, at 45mm, f/5.6, Sky-Watcher EQ3 equatorial mount. The capture software was digiCamControl, stacked with DeepSkyStacker and a very basic preprocessing with Siril. In the end, very slight post-processing in Gimp.
January 30, 2024. Zona rural, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Orion
“Question me then, my Oinos, freely and without fear. Come! we will leave to the left the loud harmony of the Pleiades, and swoop outward from the throne into the starry meadows beyond Orion, where, for pansies and violets, and heart's—ease, are the beds of the triplicate and triple—tinted suns.”
Edgar Allan Poe
If you are in the southern hemisphere you will immediately recognize the Orion Constellation in this very modest image and, if you are in the northern hemisphere, you will surely say: "Orion, the hunter, with his head down." The truth is that, wherever you are, you will agree that Orion is one of the most beautiful constellations in the sky. In my childhood I was taught to see it as a sword made of precious stones and, since then, I always saw it that way: the M42 nebula is the hilt, the Three Marys - Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka -, the guard of the sword and the group of stars that forms the head of the hunter, down in the image, where the star Meissa, the tip of the sword's blade, is located.
This constellation has magnificent treasures, such as the IC 434 nebula, which, in contrast, allows us to see the dark Horsehead nebula, the emission nebula NGC 2024 (known as the Flame nebula), the Witch's Head (IC 2118) and the queen of the constellation, M42 (just to name a few of the best known). Do you want to take on the challenge of finding them in the image? Four beautiful stars complete the dazzling scene: Rigel (the brightest), Bellatrix, Betelgeuse (the orange star of the constellation) and Saiph.
I captured this simple image with my Nikon D5600 camera, Nikon 18-55mm lens, at 45mm, f/5.6, Sky-Watcher EQ3 equatorial mount. The capture software was digiCamControl, stacked with DeepSkyStacker and a very basic preprocessing with Siril. In the end, very slight post-processing in Gimp.
January 30, 2024. Zona rural, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina.