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Captured during a night watching the Aurora Borealis on Lake Inari. The sky was so clear with so many stars, I've never seen so many absolutely stunning to see so many. With no Moon you cold almost read by starlight alone. Unfortunately I inadvertently cropped the top of the constellation bu the belt and M42 make Orion unmistakable.
Ore chute footings at Frisco Ghost Town. Frisco is in Beaver County, Utah, USA. It was an active horn silver mining camp from 1879 to 1929. At its peak in 1885, Frisco was a thriving town of 6,000 people. To see more of Frisco check out the album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/72157666320354743
good luck today.
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view it original size to see the nebula. it's cool. well, actually, it's quite hot. that's why it's a nebula. duh.
Orion Nebula. D5500, 200mm MF Ais, f/8, 40x20sec, 400iso. Stacked in Regim w/darks. Processed in Affinity photo
My first attempt at stacking frames through my telescope. Celestron C6 SCT with Advanced VX mount; Sony a7r4 in APS-C mode; 6.3 focal reducer; 557 frames; 30 seconds each; total exposure time 4:38:30; 945 mm; f/6.3; Bortle 8 sky
I really don't know constellations too well, but I do recognize Orion. It showed up nicely on a clear night in Michigan. The nearby street lights cast a nice golden glow on the trees.
Here is the previous image with the addition of a set of five-minute exposures to bring out the outer regions of the nebula.
Image details:
RGB exposures: four sec, 30 sec, 120 sec and 300 sec.
Telescope: 200mm Ritchey-Chretien plus a 0.7x reducer to give 1160mm focal length at F/5.8
Camera: ASI ZWO 294 MC Pro
Mount: Skywatcher EQ8
Software: Sharpcap, Deep Sky Stacker, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Capture One, Topaz Studio 2, Topaz Denoise AI
Location: Cambridge
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I've wanted to capture a long exposure of the constellation Orion to reveal many of the beautiful deep sky objects for quite a few years. The red emission nebulae surrounding Orion, such as Barnard's Loop, require dark night skies to be fully revealed. In this tutorial I will show you how to edit wide field astrophotography data of Orion and I hope this inspires you to attempt your own images of this stunning area! You can also download the Orion data in the video description to follow along and edit with me for practice.
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Modified Nikon Z6 and 50mm lens at f/3.2 ISO 1600 and ISO 3200. 24x4 min + 21x3 min = total 159 minutes. Skywatcher Star Adventurer for tracking.
My Orion tutorial:
Oddball Orions at Shannon:- US Customs & Border Protection P3B N146CS with its mounted radar dish was repatriating a bad boy the Americans did not want; NASA's NP3A N428NA, a prototype Orion, did a circuit and flyby for my camera after being based on a project, it was first based in March 1969 as NASA927; "Artic Fox" RP3A 150500 posed for our SEA Aztec cameraship off the Cliffs of Moher; NOAA'S "Hurricane Hunter" WP3D N42RF returning from a mission during one of times it was based at Shannon and US Navy EP3E Aries 156529 diverted to Shannon with a snag necessitating a test flight before resuming its journey.
Taken with a Canon 800D and a Samyang 16mm f2 lens, 10 1m exposures on an Omegon Minitrack LX2, stacked and processed in PixInsight.
My telescope eyepiece had frosted up so I thought I'd take an earlier train home than wait for 2h with nothing to do but take pictures, but I still managed to take a couple of shots of Orion rising above the trees. Stacking so few images, I couldn't really get the noise out (or the geostationary satellite having a leisurely walk to the left of Alnitak) but I'm happy enough that I could catch a shade of Barnard's loop. I'll likely try getting some shots with a 50mm lens tonight, moon permitting
I appreciate any criticism!
4x stacked 30 second exposures, roughly edited to make the constellation stand out
I've never done deep sky images before, so I was delighted to find nebulae can be seen at 50mm
For my own learning, the named stars are:
Head - Meissa
Shoulders - Betelgeuse and Bellatrix
Belt - Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka
Feet - Saiph and Rigel
Ci son ore rare
che ogni apparenza d' intorno
vacilla, s'umilia,
scompare come le stinte
quinte
d'un boccascena, ad atto finito,
tra il parapiglia.
I sensi sono intorpiditi
il minuto si piace di sè;
e nasce nei nostri occhi un po' stupiti
un sorriso senza perchè.
(E. Montale)
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Every clear night between December and April, Orion has a close encounter with Devils Tower just before it sets. It was a shot I've had in mind for awhile, but I waited until last week to pay a visit so I could capture it at a more reasonable time and temperature. Beneath the 3 belt stars is found Orion's Sword. It also goes by the name Messier 42, NGC1976, or simply the Orion Nebula. As the brightest nebula in northern hemisphere skies, it is easily seen with the naked eye away from light pollution. Larger in angular size than the moon, it looks spectacular in even a small telescope. If you zoom in to the belt star of Alnitak (pierced by a satellite trail), the Flame Nebula is on the left, with the Horsehead located below. Between finding the right overlook, aligning the star tracking mount, shooting dozens of long exposures, and hours of editing, “deepscape” photos like this are always more complex than any other type I create. But I love showing a commonly photographed landmark in an uncommon way. When thin clouds started to roll in I almost stopped shooting, but I ended up liking the halo effect.
NASA’s uncrewed Artemis I test flight saw Orion travel around the Moon and farther than any spacecraft designed to carry humans and return them to Earth. The landing for the Artemis I mission starts with a collision course with Earth to test the reentry, hitting our atmosphere at speeds of 40 times the speed of sound.
Just 40 minutes before splashdown, having delivered Orion safely back to Earth, ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) with its Crew Module Adapter will detach from the crew capsule. As planned, the ESM will up harmlessly in the atmosphere as the Orion Crew Module guides itself through reentry, orienting the capsule with its own thrusters, releasing its parachutes and gracefully splashing down. Recovery teams will collect the capsule.
Artemis is the international lunar exploration programme that is taking humankind to the Moon. This first mission provided a first test of both NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion moonship that was propelled by the ESM’s 33 engines beyond the Moon and into deep space. Future European Service Modules will provide electricity, propulsion and cabin thermal control for astronauts on lunar missions as well as breathable atmosphere and drinking water.
Credits: ESA-K. Lochtenberg
Unidentified USN Lockheed P-3C Orion at Edinburgh (EGPH) in 1997, this old hardstanding is now a large vehicle park.
OT71 BUS ia a Yutong GT12 T122HDH new to Orion Travel of Manchester in November 2021. It carries a hybrid megabus livery and operates service M15 (Manchester-London).
The air was so cold few days ago, that I finally was able to see a lot of stars (the weather on previous days was either misty or cloudy), and I immediately noticed one of the few constellations which I'm able to recognize without looking on the maps - Orion.
I'm delighted to see the famous stars - Betelgeuse (right shoulder - so actually top left), Rigel (left foot - bottom right), Bellatrix (left shoulder) aka the Amazon Star (Latin for "female warrior" - yes, that's how Bellatrix Lestrange nee Black got her name!), Saiph (right foot) and the belt - Alnitak (bottom), Alnilam (middle) and Mintaka (top).
If you zoom in the picture, you should be able to see more stars, including Theta Orionis, Iota Orionis and 42 Orionis (all from the sword under the belt), which is funny, because the shield and head were not visible to me at all, and the club (Chi 1 and Chi 2) is barely visible in the picture and also was not visible to me. I assume that the other bright star you could confuse with the club is Alhena from Gemini constellation.
The giant white "star" on the top is actually Jupiter passing the constellation of Taurus. The star on the right must be Aldebaran (Alpha Tau), and on the left is Elnath (Beta Tau), with Tianguan (Zeta Tau) below barely visible on zooming. Above Rigel (below the shield) is Cursa (Beta Eridani) from Eridanus. The bright star on the very top of the picture is probably Hasseleh (Iota Aurigae) from Auriga constellation, the one on the left close to bottom is Procyon (Alpha Canis Minoris) from Canis Minor, and the one on the bottom close to transmission line support is the one I couldn't recognize, but probably Mirzam (Beta Canis Majoris) from Canis Major. The only bright star on the right of the picture is also a mystery, but probably Minkar (Alpha Ceti) from Cetus.
I should be able to see my own constellation, the Aries, for the first time in my life, but even Taurus was barely visible, and it was so cold (-2C or 28.4F), I couldn't pick my phone to search for the real-time sky map (I did it only back home). Well, I know, it looks like a boring not-a-straight line consisting of four stars, but I would like to see it anyway, it's my sign on the sky. :)
This is my first attempt to take a picture of the star sky, and I was totally unprepared (I realised that I forgot to download user manual for my camera on my phone like I did with my previous phone back in 2018, and I couldn't waste time on starting my laptop to read the file to find the appropriate settings), so I just scrolled through different modes to find the one for the Moon, and it turned out quite well. :)
I placed Lego Orion in the sky, but as you can see, I'm not saying anything about the character. Well, that's because if you heard something about him from the source other than "Men In Black" film (where the major plot point was to find a stolen galaxy from Orion's belt), then probably it's nothing good. Considering famous myths about him (those featuring Pleiades, Merope and Opis who might have been Artemis), it was quite a controversial decision to release such a character as a minifigure, and it's worse than in a case of Hercules, because that was a Disney character, not the one from the myths, so his story was already different. Well, it's hard to find any decent characters in Greek mythology, especially among male characters, but if Lego wanted a constellation minifigure, they probably should have chose someone else... Anyway, transparent minifigures look cool and I collect them, so I bought Orion with the intention to use some parts for original characters, but I saw the stars and decided it would be fun to sent the character to the sky so he won't be able to harm anyone anymore.
Actually I was going to take another picture (I thought it would be relevant now for some reasons), but last week I had to do a lot of things offline, and then I tried to focus on my forum, which was a bad idea, because I missed the opportunity to took and post the picture because of it. Then I finally took the picture, got it ready, then realised that I shouldn't post two comics in a row. So on Thursday I was going to post another picture from my vault, but it required to write some thoughts and I was not in the mood. So I decided to finish and post this picture instead. But this is counts as the picture for previous week, so I need to post another picture for this week somehow, and the one for the next... But the next week is going to be busy again. And what makes me even more sad is that I didn't have enough time to prepare something to honor the premiere of the film I waited for the most in this year, and also to honor another event on the next week (because for it I should have bought something from BrickLink earlier, but instead I had to move in the autumn, and later I didn't have spare money, then later I was too focused on getting something which would be out of stock soon and totally forgot). Damn, I need holidays right now so bad...
Empezamos el año compartiendo la última fotografía que realicé en 2021 aprovechando la tregua que nos ofreció la niebla durante un par de días en Lleida.
Se trata de una fotografía en la que me quería fotografiar con la constelación de Orion en un entorno próximo y que no que canso de volver a visitar.
Espero que en este año 2022 que empezamos podamos disfrutar de buenas luces y de noches totalmente estrelladas. ¡¡¡FELIZ 2022 ߥ㡡!
My latest capture of M42, the Orion nebula. This is considered as an easy target but it is also very easy to overexpose the core. I had to combine exposures from different duration to get the details in the core and still show all the details in the dust surrounding it. I am quite pleased with the result.
I will still certainly try again next year, like the last four years. Every time, I manage to improve on the last one.
TS80 Photoline, ZWO ASI 294MC PRO, Celestron AVX mount. Stacked and processed in Pixinsight.
Model on Mecabricks: mecabricks.com/en/models/QeDvVJb0vBR
Some news: I'm planning several MOC's connected to mining in space. It can be called Astromining project. Here is the first one. Small starship with two pilots and many different mineral scaners. And the bad one: I've got some troubles with my PC so renders will be not so good for some time.
Hi guys, here is Orion.
Telescope: SharpStar 150 f2,8
Guide Scope:Evoguide
Mount : Skywatcher HEQ5
Imaging camera: ZWO 2600MC
Guiding camera: ZWO 290 MC
Filters: NBZ Idas,Optolong Lpro
Plate solving: SGpro
Imaging software: Sgpro
Guiding software: PHD2
Processing software: Pixinsight
NBZ: 30X120s exposure@100 Gain
Lpro:60X120s exposure@100 Gain
Integration: 3 hrs
Ore, a female Kudu was all ears as I stopped to look at her this afternoon in Tachila. Ore is the Afrikaans word for ears and I think she depicts this admirably.
Anniversary edition pair of C40-8's lead 119 veteran DM&IR ore cars north about to cross Highway 7 on the way back to the mine and crusher for more rock to feed the plant.
Comes with a 90% chance of destruction.
A little more refinement would be of benefit to this one but I'm a little tired of working on it at the moment. Hopefully I will get a clearer shot on white + additional refinement, but I liked the darker tone of this shot enough to post.
Still a work in progress. Two images stitched with Photoshop. Samyang 135mm, modified Canon 60D, Losmandy GM811 unguided.
A Freightliner 66 leaves Scunthorpe Ore Plant with the 1842 to Immingham Dock Ore Terminal, 25 early.
We tried to spot the 7 planets in a row, with limited success. But Orion's Belt made for a nice substitute.
Orion Nebula from my backyard. Practicing for when I can get to a dark sky in January. I did pretty well with alignment last night!
Bortle 8+
32.5 minutes subs
Various darks by temp and gain
Olympus E-M5 Mark III & 75-300mm
30 secs x 65, iso 1000, f/8, at 300mm
SA 2i tracker
ASTAP stacking, PS stretching, Photolab6 editing
Orion races through our sky and in so doing leaves traces of brilliant starlight that seems engraved into our minds if we start to watch the stars and to revel in their wondrous beauty. Orion features in the annual procession of the constellations that rise above the limits of our horizon and also fall below our view each Solar sojourn.
For any failings please do not blame the Helios-44 2 it needs an adjustment to be made and to be secured. This is a picture from a Helios 44 ƒ2 one of the much vaunted Soviet copies of the Carl Zeiss Biotar 58mm ƒ/2. The Soviet manufactured lenses are much sought after for wonderful bokeh both from factory standard output and also now with a growing multitude of modern fanciful adjustments many making dream like pictures. The necessary adjustment to reach precise Star Focus is possibly going to feature in later uploads.
© PHH Sykes 2024 also edited © PHH Sykes 2025
phhsykes@gmail.com
“Helios-44 is a Soviet copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar 58mm ƒ/2 lens produced under the Helios lens brand.[1] The lens was made in the Soviet Union and Russia, primarily for the M42 lens mount.”
January 8th 2022
21 minutes total exposure
SW 80mm APO, field flattener, IDAS l2 filter and canon 600D.
Orion B Cloud
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Orion B is a giant molecular cloud that at 420 parsec away from Earth. It has a size of about 1.5 kpc² and a mass around 100,000 times that of the Sun.
Orion B is home to several star forming regions, including the Flame Nebula and the Horsehead Nebula. The star cluster inside the Flame Nebula is the largest cluster within Orion B.