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The Orion Nebula (M42), seen from my backyard in the Netherlands, in Westzaan (close to Amsterdam). The Nikon was mounted on a simple tripod, without tracking.
Photo by Farrell Germann using a Canon XS DSLR and an Orion 80mm ED scope, all mounted on a Celestron mount.
A colony of hot, young stars is stirring up the cosmic scene in this new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The image shows the Orion nebula, a happening place where stars are born. The young stars dip and peak in brightness due to a variety of reasons. Shifting cold and hot spots on the stars' surfaces cause brightness levels to change, in addition to surrounding disks of lumpy planet-forming material, which can obstruct starlight. Spitzer is keeping tabs on the young stars, providing data on their changing ways..
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The hottest stars in the region, called the Trapezium cluster, are bright spots at center right. Radiation and winds from those stars has sculpted and blown away surrounding dust. The densest parts of the cloud appear dark at center left..
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This image was taken after Spitzer's liquid coolant ran dry in May 2009, marking the beginning of its "warm" mission. Light from the telescope's remaining infrared channels has been color-coded: 3.6-micron light is blue and 4.5-micron light is orange.
Packed into the centre of this region are bright lights of the Trapezium stars, the four heftiest stars in the Orion Nebula. Ultraviolet light unleashed by these stars is carving a cavity in the nebula and disrupting the growth of hundreds of smaller stars. The dark speck near the bottom, right of the image is a silhouette of an edge-on disk encircling a young star. Another whitish-looking disk is visible near the bottom, left, just above the two bright stars. This disk is encased in a bubble of gas and dust.
The Orion Nebula (M42), seen from my backyard in the Netherlands, in Westzaan (close to Amsterdam). The Nikon was mounted on a simple tripod, without tracking.
This glowing region reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected by the Trapezium stars - collide with material.
Hubble (1995-11-20) Messier 42, Orion Nebula, Orion Proplyd 01 (Hubble) - Proplyds in the Orion Nebula
15 MARZO 2021
3671 sec - Frames da 1 minuto
TS OPTICS 80/540
ASI 290 COLOR
FOCAL REDUCER 0,5
SHARPCAP
PHOTOSHOP
60 frames for a 5 minute total exposure.
Not exactly high-rez, but I was pleased it came out so well with a relatively short exposure.
My first success at serious astrophotography. Not just a single picture or a zoomed in iPhone. Canon Rebel T7, a zoom lens and a tripod. 650 2 second photos. 50 darks. 50 flats. Stacked in DSS and processed with GIMP. Bortles 7.