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With a little bit of steam, fresh pellets from the BN side of the range make their way to Lake Superior. Soon enough, the Fall sun will take the morning bite out of the air.
The constellation of Orion and the molecular clouds that surround it, known in full as the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, as seen over a cove along the coast of Maine with the tide coming in.
The very bright spot in the middle of the sky is the Orion Nebula, and Orion’s belt is to the left and up from there.
I used the LRGB processing technique to bring out the detail and color in the nebulosity in the sky. This technique involves separating the luminance (detail) and color (RGB) processing into separate steps and combining them to really bring out the faint details. This technique is normally used on deep space images, but I tried it here to see how much I could get out of this sky, even with the thin clouds catching some light pollution. The result was that the thin clouds were brought out a lot themselves, but it added an interesting look to the photo.
Nikon Z 6 and NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.8 S lens. The image is a star stacked blend of 20 images at ISO f/2.2, ISO 3200, 6 seconds each. Stopping the lens down to f/2.2 sharpened up the stars a bit. Those images were stacked with Starry Landscape Stacker for pinpoint stars and low noise. I didn’t use a separate foreground shot for this, I wanted to keep the foreground mostly in silhouette. But since I was using Starry Landscape Stacker it made it easy to stack the sky part of the exposures separate from the foreground, but end up with a low noise result for both. SLS is available only for macOS but you can use Sequator on Windows. You can do it in Photoshop but it’s a much more manual process that doesn’t always work well.
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with Sigma 4/500 Sports and Nikon d850
40 pics (selected from 100), low tripod, 2nd Lens support with grain pad, no tracking;
0,8 sec Exposure time
4.0 Aperture
ISO 4000
Live View Modus (no mirror movement);
20 dark- and 20 bios-frames;
stacked with DeepSkyStacker, result processed in lightroom
digital enlarged : about x2,5
Orion next to the tower of Salisbury Cathedral. The tower was built ~1310-1330. The photons from Rigel, the bright star bottom right, that hit my photo sensor to make this image had been travelling for longer than that, probably since the 1100s! Shot as I walked home from work!
Lugar: Finca La Pomarrosa, Barlovento, centro norte de Venezuela.
Por agosto de 1998, cuando era apenas un minino de dos semanas, Aristóbulo fue adoptado como mascota por Orión, por entonces un perro también muy joven de apenas tres meses de edad. Como se ve en la foto, gato y perro siguen comportándose como los amigos del alma que siempre han sido.
Place: La Pomarrosa Farm, Barlovento, north-central Venezuela.
By August 1998, when it was only a two weeks old kitty, Aristobulo was adopted as mascot by Orion, at that time also a young dog being only three months old. As you can see in the photo, cat and dog continue to be the very good friends that they always have been.
Every year at this time I look forward to seeing the return of the famous Orion constellation to our evening sky.
Object Details:
Messier 42, NGC 1976, LBN 974.
Constellation: Orion.
Visual magnitude: +4.0
Apparent diameter: 85 x 60.0 arc-min. (about 2 Lunar Diameters).
Actual diameter: 35 light years.
Distance: 1,400 light years.
Also visible:
The smaller bright nebula, M43;
2nd magnitude quadruple star Iota Orionis; and
wide double star Struve 747.
Image:
Exposure: 6 x 60 sec, ISO 1600.
Date: 2017-11-22.
Location: Leumeah, NSW.
Sky: suburban sky, some cloud.
Moon: 4 day crescent, low in West.
Processing: Canon DPP > Deep Sky Stacker > GIMP.
Cropping: no.
Gear:
Imaging telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 120ED Super APO triplet refractor.
Focal length: 840 mm, focal ratio: f/7.
Imaging camera: Canon EOS 60D.
Guiding: off (due to RA corrections failing).
Telescope mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R.
Polar aligning: QHYCCD PoleMaster.
Field flattener: yes; filter: no.
The constellation of Orion is returning to Northern skies after spending our winter shining over more pleasant lands. However, at 56° North, we don't actually see it for very long before the summer twilight takes over (it is only properly dark between midnight and 2am in mid-April).
With Covid lockdown restrictions and not being able to get to a dark sky area, this was the best shot I could get for springtime 2021, but the Orion Nebula is visible in the sword area. Horrendous light pollution courtesy of my local supermarket car park, but the impact of that has been reduced quite considerably with post-processing.
Technical - this is a stack of 9 ten-second shots with a 20mm prime lens at f/2.2 (so equivalent to 90 seconds exposure). The foreground was taken from the eighth shot, where a fire engine raced along the road with its blue lights on for a bit of interest.
The title is an homage to OzzRod.
Ive had this itch for several years to get into astro photography, but my attempts have been a dismal failure for many reasons, not least faffing around in the cold for hours trying to do polar alignments and locating objects to photograph. So I called a halt to my attempts a couple of years ago.
But the urge didn't go, and this week I bought one of these all-in-one astro telescope thingies. It's designed for beginners, and I suspect also idiots like me. It arrived on Thursday and amazingly the following evening was clear skies, so I gave it a go.
A full moon rather inhibited light gathering of the distant nebulae, but I did manage to capture an hours worth of Orion images. Then followed it with my feeble attempts to process the FITS raw file in Siril and Photoshop.
While this image has many warts and I am sure real astro photographers will grimace while looking at it, for me, it was the first time I had ever managed to capture an astro image in a way that I had intended. If I can work the telescope and produce this then it truly is idiot proof!
Hope my Flickr pals are all well, prospering and happy.
Joe
Orion Nebula taken in Arizona Bortle 3 clear skies. My first foray into deep space object astrophotography! Taken with ZWO ASI183MC-Pro using Rokinon 135mm lens, ZWO 30mm Guide Scope, ZWO 120mm mini Guide Camera, ASIAir and EAF.
The Horsehead Nebula (officially known as Barnard 33), located 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Orion, is one of the most iconic dark nebulae in the night sky. It gets its name from its distinctive horse-head shape, which blocks part of the emission nebula (IC 434) behind it. Stars and star systems are currently forming within the material of the nebula.
The bright white patch on the left side of the image is Alnitak, the southernmost star in Orion's Belt. This blue supergiant is the 31st brightest star in the sky, with a mass approximately 28 times that of the Sun. Below it, the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) can be seen, which, unlike the Horsehead Nebula, is not dark but an emission nebula—meaning it shines, rather than absorbs light.
ZWO Seestar S50
Foregroud: Sony A7rii & Canon Ef 17-40mm, Sky: Sony A7s & Minolta Rokkor Mc 50mm f1.4. 32 Images a 8 sec. stacked
This beautiful constellation is called Orion the Hunter. It covers huge area of the sky. The image is 35 x 22 degrees. The three stars in the middle is the Belt of the hunter, the two stars in the right is the lower extremities while Hunter’s shoulders are the two stars on the left and the head is surrounded by emission Red circular nebula. This complex cloud includes many astronomical objects like, Bernard’s loop sh2-276 which is supernova remanent happened before 2 million years ago. Orion nebula M42 and Horse head nebula IC 434 ( in the center of the image) which are both emission nebulae. M78 and witch head nebula IC2118 in the upper right of the image opposite to Rigel star which is reflection nebula. Lights 40 x 180, Optolong L-Pro, 40 x 180 Antlia Tri color ultra filter. Exposure time 4 hours. Gear setup: Rokinon 50mm @ f/2.8, ZWO 2400MC @ 0, ZWO Mini Guide scope, iOptron Sky Guider pro, ZWO ASIAir. Stacked in APP, Processed in PI + PS. Sky Bortle class 4. Cropped.
The Orion Nebula (M42) blazes brightly in the constellation Orion. This stellar nursery has been known to many different cultures throughout human history. The nebula is only 1,500 light-years away, making it the closest large star-forming region to Earth and giving it a relatively bright apparent magnitude of 4. Because of its brightness and prominent location just below Orion’s belt, M42 can be spotted with the naked eye, while offering an excellent peek at stellar birth for those with telescopes. It is best observed during January.
SETUP:
SW Newtonian 150/1200
Canon T1i Mod
11x90"
Celestron CG5 Advanced GT Mount
Guider: 60mm + ASI120mc
Bortle 5 site
Porto Real-RJ / Brazil
First light on my new telescope the William Optics Minicat 51. I went to my private dark sky site to test it out. This is a 2 panel mosaic of Orion and Horsehead nebula. This is a HALRGB image. Hope you all enjoy and thanks for any constructive comments.
Equipment:
Telescope - William Optics Minicat 51
Imaging Camera- Qhy268m
Mount - Sky-watcher EQ6-R Pro
Software:
Sequence Generator Pro
Pixinsight
Lightroom
Photoshop
Lights:
R-120x15sec
G-120x15sec
B-120x15sec
Lum-120x30sec
Ha-60x120sec
35 Darks
100 Bias
Total integration 4.5 hours
I've always had an affinity with Orion. As a child, my father taught me how to spot it's distinctive belt with betelgeuse serving as a buckle. In truth, it's still probably the only constellation I can easily identify today.
Through some additional cloudy images into the mix, this is about 47 minutes total exposure. Longest exposure of individual frames is 2 min. ISO 6400. Used unmodified 6D plus 85mm f1.4 lens. Filter size meant taken at about f2.6. Mounted on Astrotrac. Processed in DSS, Pixinsight and Faststone Image Viewer. Used OPT Triad filter, H Alpha, H Beta and O III.
Orion - First Try
I recently got myself a Sky-watcher Star Adventurer Photography kit, and despite having purchased it some time ago I have only just got it out and started learning how to use it. Sadly my first try was a bit of a bust as I was only able to get one usable picture out of it due to poor polar alignment. In the southern hemisphere we have to align against the octan's however, in the area I was capturing the image the light pollution meant I could not find them :(. This meant that because I was off alignment, all of the tracking shots were not sharp and displayed some level of motion blurring. The image I did salvage was taken with the Nikon D610, Sigma 150mm Macro, 20 Seconds, f/2.8, ISO 1600. Image was edited in lightroom before being tweaked in Topaz Denoise and Topaz Sharpen.
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I have been playing with this for some time, unable to get a result I was totally happy with. Still not 100% convinced, but at least this version has some elements I am pleased with.
The main point I'm not pleased with is the core is totally blown out - and this is from just 3 min sub exposures. If I have chance I may try some very short Luminance shots and have play with the HDR combine tool in PI.
LRGB image captured with Orion ED80T CF & Atik 314l+, processed in Pixinsight and CS5
RGB and enhancement of a color image of Orion/M42 taken by a remote telescope located in Australia
Another process
Telescope optics:
OTA: Celestron RASA 11" 279mm
Optical Design: Rowe Akerman Shmidt Astrograph
Aperture: 279mm
Focal Length: 620mm
F/Ratio: 2.2
Guiding: No Guiding
Mount: Paramount ME
Capture date : 2023.03.10 and location : Australia
Shooting parameters : I telescope
Processing: Thomas Thomopoulos
Image credit : I Telescope / Thomas Thomopoulos
My effort at processing some pics of the orion nebula that me and my dad took a couple of nights ago. using my skywatcher 200p and his canon 60da. stacked and processed in pixinsight. Around 300 seconds in total.
A better one of the Orion, Horsehead and Casper the Friendly Ghost (cute name) nebulae.
The dust clouds starts to show quite well even if a longer exposure and better sky would bring more structure details... maybe next time :)
Shot with a modified Canon 5DmkII with CLS filter and Canon 70-200mm L @ 200mm lens on Star Adventurer tracker.
154min integration time.
Processed in PixInsight with final cosmetic in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Orion Nebula SHO
Telescope
Rc 8 carbon and reducer 0,67 Ts
Ccd
Moravian G2-8300 mono
Oag
guide g0-0300
Mount
AZ-EQ6 Skywatcher
8x500 6x300 15x60 Ha
10x300 Sii
10x300 Oiii
Elaboration Pix and PS
Orion Nebula - M42
Location, date and time: Petrov vrh, Daruvar, 1.11.2013. at 2:18h
Optical system: 120/900 ED APO
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Montage and guiding: NEQ6, Ascom camera, PHD Guiding
Shutter speed: 3x5min., ISO 800; 5x5min, ISO 400; 3x2min, ISO400
Software: DSS, PS-CS6e
Weather conditions: +8°C, humidity
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