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Branched Oak State Recreation Area, Nebraska
Orion was very prominent in the sky and I decided to try a photo to see if I could see the Orion Nebula in the photo. I was surprised to see that the nebula is visible in the photo. I think the large halos around the stars are due to haze from the clouds drifting in.
There is a note on the photo.
The star tracker used was a Move-Shoot-Move
Great nebula in Orion constellation. It is a multiple nebulas region. On the left side on the photo is Sh2-279, named “Running man nebula”. On the right is a massive Messier 42, brightest and closest star formation cloud to the Earth.
All the image data was captured during 4 separate nights from my backyard home observatory. As this region is rather too big for my telescope focal length and for my DSLR sensor size, i decided to built 2 panels mosaic to show both nebulas in more adequate frame size. Two stacks of images are joined in the middle (left and right) + very bright M42 core captured with shorter expositions so that details could be visible.
Captured: Nov 12 and 26, Dec 6 and 7, 2018.
Location: AO Nostromo, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia
Telescope: SkyWatcher MN190/1000
Mount: SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6 GT
Camera: DSLR Canon 450D (full spectrum)
Frames: Left segment: 69x360" Right segment: 23x360" Core: 42x20"
Exposure: 9.5h
Software: PHD2; BackyardEOS; PixInsight; Photoshop
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This image was taken a few nights ago in the freezing cold from the garden. The image depicts the constellation of Orion's Belt, with the Nebula (M42) towards the bottom right. The three stars that are aligned are Mintaka (top), Alnilam (middle) and Alnitak (bottom).
Last year was my first attempt at capturing the Nebula. This year I thought it was about time I had another go.
Last summer I received the Benro Polaris, which was used. Recently I decided to try again and capture Orion's Belt.
After four continuous night of capturing the constellation, I was able to iron out the issues I was having with the Polaris. This image was captured on the fifth night. The next night was called off due to fog.
En Aguaviva, Teruel, se coloca otro de los miradores astronómicos del Bajo Aragón, junto a la Ermita de Santa Bárbara.... dedicado a la constelación del Cisne. Aquí apuntando a Orión, debido a la fecha de la toma....
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80pics mit je 15sec bei ISO 1000 + 15darks + 15bias
erster Versuch mit Teleskop RC 8" 1680 mm, im Ruhrgebiet (hohe Lichtverschmutzung), bei Vollmond;
stacked/stretched mit Siril, nachbearbeitet mit LR
80pics with 15sec each at ISO 1000 + 15darks + 15bias
first try with telescope RC 8" 1680 mm, in the Ruhr area (light pollution high) at full moon;
stacked/stretched with Siril, final processing with LR
Cropped: long side 8500 to 7600 pixel (Nikon d850)
Hey folks, I’m really busy at the moment and not much time to be around but I’ve managed to clean up and put this ST together. It was taken just before Christmas last year and it is stack of 30sec for over 3hrs total time. The dense star trails throughout the middle and behind the dish is constellation of Orion.
It is International Dark-Sky Week this week and the weather is just perfect so hopefully I’ll be able to go out somewhere soon but in the meantime tune in with me:
"[...] Drifting on the spaceway
By the Betelgeuse Hotel
Mapping out constellations
Of the place I know so well
Sifting through the system
For the piece that knows my name
Endlessly I listen
In the master game
Welcome to my world
(Welcome to my world)
Welcome to my only world
(Welcome to my only world)
It is full of space junk[...]"
Wang Chung - Space Junk
What can you do with an old unmodified DSLR and a camera lens? Quite a bit actually.
I took this photo of central Orion with the popular Rokinon/Samyang 135mm f/2 lens and my old unmodified Canon 6D. No filters or guiding used and it was captured from Bortle ~4 skies in Maryland, USA. I've had this lens a few months, but this is my first time using it for astro-imaging. Very impressed with the results.
Image Details:
Canon 6D, Samyang 135mm f/2 @ f/2.8, ISO1600, 101x120s exposures. Losmandy G11 mount. Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop CC.
First edit of the Orion Nebula, shot from my back doorstep, i set the camera did a test shot and low and behold it was the first thing i shot, I never quite realised you could see it without tracking. After abit of tweaking and manual focussing i managed to shoot at 1-2 secs 2.8 and between 3200-4000 iso. Single shot exposure on a canon 70-200mm 2.8 shot at 200mm.
Here is another shot we captured, last night, with our new/used Astro tracker.This image is raw no processing was done, what you see is what you get.
It’s great to see Orion constellation again.
There are many nebulosities in this area, such as the Flame and horse head nebulas, the Rosette and Cone, the monkey head, the witch head, Barnard loop, lambda orionis and obviously the Orion nebula.
it really deserves an astromodified camera.
Sony A7s AstrodonInside with Canon FD 35mm F/2
Stack of 11x10s Iso 3200 @ F/2.8
The most photographically useful mile on the Missabe strikes again with this consolation prize U717 yesterday. I had been out specifically to catch the squeaky clean veterans unit leading A439 but it outran the setting sun to Birch. After failing I started southward for home and caught up with this guy at Culver and beat him here to the south crossing at Burnett with about 6 minutes of sun left.
Ya don't get this opportunity often. Also as you'll see in the companion photo this is a set of shiny new 8000 series ore cars that have displaced the old order astonishingly quickly. The Missabe is down to one or two trainsets of old cars in pellet service.
Finally a clear night without the moon. Near ideal conditions. Single shot using a 120 Euro lens. Not too shabby
1107 and 1104 work through Warabrook with Carrington bound Ore train 8466 from Cobar.
2020-03-21 Qube 1107-1104 Warabrook 8466N
Trailing three Copper Basin Railway units is this long string of unique 100 ton side dump ore cars, some of which are only a few years old. They are seen here exiting the west portal of 150 ft long Tunnel 2 at about MP 988 on the Copper Basin Railway mainline with the first empty ore train of the day. Just ahead is Ray Junction where they will swing off the former Southern Pacific branch and on to the former KCC line that leads five miles up to the load out at the concentrator adjacent the giant open pit Ray copper mine.
Having heard that these famous Copper Basin Railroad ore haulage trains, the last of their kind in the nation, are no more I've been looking back to better days when I spent three fun days in copper country. Its uncertain if they'll ever return so enjoy these views from when the rock still rolled!
To learn more about this railroad check out the detailed caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2kVWC7m
Pinal County, Arizona
Friday October 17, 2015
Another image of winter Mikly Way and the beautiful constellation Orion, tanken from another Swiss Alpine Pass. This one was taken on Sattelegg.
The red nebulas in Orion, Barnards Loop and, to the left of it, Rosetta Nebula (C 49) are clearly visible in the lower parts of the image. Higher in the sky, you can see the open clusters Hyades and Pleiades in Taurus. The red California Nebula (NGC 1499) is visible in the upper center.
Astro-modified Canon EOS 6D
Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm
Foreground:
- 4 x 180s @ ISO1600
- Stacked with PS
Sky:
- 8 x 90s @ ISO1600
- Tracked with iOptron Skytracker
- Stacked with fitswork4
This is perhaps my favorite astro photo to date. There is some much happening here, with really interesting details throughout most of the frame. Not to overpower this very bright object, I used 30 second frames, ultimately stacking 200 of them! I took darks just to be safe, but the raw light frames were reltatively free of noise.
This is a view of the core of the Orion Nebula, or M42. It's a massive star-forming region some 1,344 light years away. Within it, lies newer stars around which the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the formation of new planets. these are all being formed as gas and dust within the nebula collapses.
There are three different kinds of shocks in the Orion Nebula. Many are featured in Herbig–Haro objects:
- Bow shocks are stationary and are formed when two particle streams collide with each other. They are present near the hottest stars in the nebula where the stellar wind speed is estimated to be thousands of kilometers per second and in the outer parts of the nebula where the speeds are tens of kilometers per second. Bow shocks can also form at the front end of stellar jets when the jet hits interstellar particles.
- Jet-driven shocks are formed from jets of material sprouting off newborn T Tauri stars. These narrow streams are traveling at hundreds of kilometers per second, and become shocks when they encounter relatively stationary gases.
- Warped shocks appear bow-like to an observer. They are produced when a jet-driven shock encounters gas moving in a cross-current.
The interaction of the stellar wind with the surrounding cloud also forms "waves" which are believed to be due to the hydrodynamical Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. (!)
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: Celestron C8 SCT
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO IR cut filter
- Guider: Celestron Starsense Autoguider
- Mount: Celestron CGEM
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: Celestron
- Light Frames: 200*30 seconds @ 0 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 200*30 seconds
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise A
The Orion Nebula, possibly the most photographed deep sky object in the night sky; it is also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976, a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, located south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1350 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across and it has a mass of about 2000 times that of the Sun.
William Optics GT81
William Optics Flat 6AIII
ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Skywatcher HEQ 5 Pro
Optolong L-eXtreme filter
100 x 180s lights, 40 darks, 50 flats, 50 flat darks at gain 101 and cooled to -10C.
Stacked in PixInsight and processed in PixInsight, PS and LR.
She could drink coffee and spout rhymes for hours man!
Lovely beret by Jenny www.flickr.com/photos/71669872@N00/
M42 The Orion Nebula
Since we're currently getting buried in snow and there's no clear skies in sight, I decided to "practice" on M42. I used 6 panels from my latest hyperstar mosaic as luminance. www.flickr.com/photos/astrochuck/16138742249/
Combined color data from last years AT65EDQ/QHY9M image
www.flickr.com/photos/astrochuck/10848930723/
and core luminance from my QHY23M/11" EdgeHD @F/7
I've added a layer of "dark sky data" to my Orion Nebula image (on the right).
Which one do you prefer?
Some people like the dynamic, contrasty saturated look of the first one. I personally enjoy the extra softness and glow of the stars in the second.
This diffused nebula is located 1300 light years away in the Milky Way Galaxy .
The image consists of roughly 2 hours of light images along with darks, dark flats, and flats for calibration.
It was processed using Deep Sky Stacker and finished in Photoshop. Images were taken with an ASI294MC Pro camera through an Evostar 72ED OTA and was tracked but not guided. I used an ASIAir Pro to control everything.
Hope you enjoy and any comments/suggestions welcome.
A westbound Conrail ore train behind C30-7 6606, 6601 and SD40-2 6384 glides under the signal bridge at View Tower, Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA, 14 July 1978.
Captured on a Canon EOS 70D crop sensor DSLR, no telescope. Multiple images combined using HDR software can be a great way to actually increase the dynamic range and signal to noise ratio, even for deep space astrophotography images.
Rail Operations Group Class 57 57312 tows Orion Livery 326001 (former 319373) + Orion Livery 768001 (former 319010) on 5q42 0950 Mossend Down Yard - Crewe C.S. passes a dull Woodacre near Garstang on 12/12/2021
After a bit of a break I have started to play with imaging Deep Sky Objects again. This is a stack of images taken with a 200mm lens rather than a telescope. It shows the stars that make the belt of Orion and four of the Nebula, The orion nebula, running man nebula, flame nebula and horse head nebula. Taken from the back garden, bortle class 5, 120 second light frames stacked in DSS and processed in photoshop. It still amazes me that you can see this from your back garden
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky with apparent magnitude 4.0. It is 1,344 ± 20 light-years (412.1 ± 6.1 pc) away and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light-years across (so its apparent size from Earth is approximately 1 degree). It has a mass of about 2,000 times that of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks and brown dwarfs within the nebula, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula. [Text from wikipedia]
Takahashi fsq106 f/5
Mount Astro Physics 1100 GTO
Camera ASI 6200 MMpro
Filters: Astrodon GenII RGB
Luminance 90x420s
RGB: 26x420s
Date: Jan-Feb 2023
Italy, Long 7°41'40"E, Lat 45°28'18"N. Sky 20,9-21,2
Automation software: Voyager (L. Orazi)
Processing: Photoshop, Pixinsight
My first try at this but was beaten by some thing I thought was tight but was not casing the shot to be off just a little. I ran out of time to get the dark's to make the center not so bright, Oh well next year I will spent some real time here when I get to see Orion again round 2.
Thought I would piggy back a second camera and lens to my Telescope last night. So glad I did. Canon 5DSR and 70-200mmL @ 200mm. 192 x 30 sec exposures pointing at Orion whilst my main scope was shooting the Horsehead and Flame Nebula. This wider perspective has managed to capture top right -The great Orion nebula and running man nebula.In the centre region we have the horsehead and flame nebula, and bottom left is Casper the friendly ghost nebula. Pretty damn happy with this. My only gripe was silly user error and for some reason my cam was set to small jpeg and not raw capture.
Orion's Belt is a very colorful region in the center of the constellation of Orion. This very deep image was composed of 4 panels and shows a huge chunk of sky at very high resolution. The region is filled with dust an gas, notably the Horsehead and Flaming star nebula are visible. Also notice the many other objects: IC423, 426, 431, IC432...
Four panel color image taken at the remote observatory from the E-Eye site in Spain.
The image is composed of 47.5 hours of exposure time with the ZWO ASI-2600MC color camera using a Takahashi Epsilon 180 ED Astrograph, riding on a Paramount ME II.
Trying to go longer with my sub exposures on the AT6RC. The Orion Nebula can be challenging to image due to the wide range of brightness, making it very easy to overexpose. For me, the challenge in processing preserving dynamic range without looking artificial. Short exposures (180s and 30s) have been blended into the overexposed core. Final image here is 3hr30min exposure. It's been cropped to remove edge distortions due to the oversized full-frame sensor. Forgive the oval stars - I'm going to blame periodic error for that.
Canon 6D & AstroTech AT6RC
AstroPhysics CCDT67 Focal Reducer (0.75x reduction for 1027mm focal length)
14x900s exposures at ISO1600
12/19/2019
I captured Orion from the south of France. I stacked 20 pictures with 45 seconds exposure each.
This is the easiest nebula to shot, located in Orion belt.