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The Orion Nebula M42, Friday 20 December, about 1300 Light Years away, with its attendant Running Man Nebula - An unexpected Clear night but I was busy being a Taxi Service, so I quickly set up my Smart Scope, the Seestar and Imaged. Just over an hour of 10 Second images in Mosaic Mode, and finished off with a new to me Specialist Astro Processing software, Pixinsight. Final touches in Lightroom.
Taken at home, so a lot of light pollution, but you can also see the Running Man Nebula underneath it.
M42 - Orion Nebula & Running Man (HDR)
"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. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass 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, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula.
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NGC 1973/5/7 is a reflection nebula 1/2 degree northeast of the Orion Nebula. The three NGC objects are divided by darker regions. It is also called The Running Man Nebula and Sharpless Catalog 279.
This object was named 'The Running Man Nebula' by Texas Astronomical Society member Jason Ware. Approximately 20 years ago his down stairs neighbor looked at the object and said it looked like a running man. He brought this up a TAS club meeting and the name stuck. Now widely accepted as 'The Running Man'."
(Source: Wikipedia)
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31.12.2018 Gödence, İzmir
Frames: 15x30" ISO1600 Light, Dark, Flat, Bias
Optic: C11 EdgeHD& HyperStar3 @ f/2
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (Unmodified)
Guide:: ZWO ASI120MM & Celestron 9x50
Software: PixInsight 1.8, PS CS5
This time a really really tough one to post-process...
M42 - Orion Nebula & Sh2-279 - The Running Man Nebula HDR LHa-HaROIIIGB (OSC camera)
Specs:
RGB:
30x20s @ISO 200
30x20s @ISO 400
30x40s @ISO 400
30x120s @ISO 400
16x150s @ISO 800
Ha and OIII:
26x420s @ISO 800
30 Darks each
30 Flats each
30 Bias (processed in SuperBias)
SQM 18.6 approx.
Rig:
OTA: Skywatcher 80ED Evostar
Mount: Ioptron iEQ30 PRO
Camera: EOS 50D baader mod
Reducer SW FF/reducer 0.85x
Guide camera: ASI ZWO 120MC
Guide scope: SW finder
Filter: Optolong L-Enhance (Ha and OIII) & Optolong L-Pro (RGB)
NGC 1977 The Running Man Nebula. TEC 140mm Refractor, SBIG 8300M, Astrodon Gen II LRGB & HA filters. One hour exposure through each filter. February 20-24th 2014.
Here is another image of the Orion Nebula. It is a HDR image combining 3 different processed image taken at different exposure setting to show the bright inner detail along with the more faint outer areas.
It 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. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. 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.
Taken from my home under light polluted skies using the ZWO Duo Filter.
Stacked from 60 30 second, 30 10 second, and 30 5 second images in Pixinsight
Camera: ASI1600MC
Scope: 8 Inch Celestron RASA
Mount: Orion Atlas EQ/G
5 January 2022
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro
Mount: Skywatcher Adventurer tracking mount
Telescope: Altair 60 EDF f=360mm
100 exposures of 10s (M42 centre) plus 150 exposures of 30s = 75mins
Captured with KStars and Ekos running on a Raspberry Pi
Processed in PixInsight and GIMP
Spencers Wood Berkshire
Messier 42, the Great Orion Nebula, is the biggest, brightest, nebula visible in the Northern Hemisphere. It can be seen with the naked eye, dangling from Orion's belt.
The red parts of the nebula are hydrogen which has been excited--like a fluorescent light--by hot, young stars, and particularly by the 4 stars known as the Trapezium. It is hard to make out the Trapezium in this picture because I have optimized the picture to make visible the gargantuan gas and dust clouds surrounding the nebula. I will soon post a second picture which optimizes the Trapezium.
The blue parts of the Orion Nebula are caused by reflections of hot blue stars off the interstellar dust and gas.
To the left of the Orion Nebula is a second nebula known as the Running Man Nebula, NGC 1977. You will note that it is entirely blue; it is a reflection nebula.
The Orion and Running Man nebulas are on he order of 2000 light years distant in our Milky Way Galaxy.
Make sure to click on the image to blow it up to maximum size. This truly is one of the most beautiful celestial objects I have ever imaged.
Tech specs:
180 x 30 sec.
Tak FSQ85 scope
Avalon Linear Mount
Risingcam IMX571 camera
Datil, NM, October 22, 2022
Processed with APP, Startools, Topaz DN, ACDSee
I can't resist shooting the Orion Nebula year after year. I am particularly happy with the Running Man nebula this year.
Photo of part of constellation Orion with a Canon T1i with a telephoto lens piggybacked on top of my telescope. This is a stack of 20 pictures, each of them was a 30 second exposure. You can see 2 of the stars of Orion's belt at the top and the sword pointing down at the bottom with Orion Nebula (M42) in the middle of the sword. You can even catch faint "Flame Nebula" (NGC 2024) in the top center next to the left most star of the belt and "Running Man Nebula" NGC 1977 right above M42.
Messier object M42 (Wikipedia article). At a distance of ~1300 light years it is said to be the nearest massive star formation region to earth. The picture also shows M43 and NGC 1977, the Running Man nebula (take a look at the "blank" surrounded by the blue cloud; kind of look like a man, right?).
Photographed in Schmidgern 6b, 82205 Gilching, Germany, 22.11.09 ca. 4-5am. A stack of 30 unguided exposures, each 120s at ISO 800. Canon EOS 20D on 80mm Explore Scientific APO refractor. Dark, flat, and offset frames applied, complete post-processing done with Iris. What a wonderful software!
Integration of 76 fifteen second shots. Rokinon 135 f2 lens at f2.8 and ISO of 1000. The Flame and Horse Head nebula are just visible around Alnitak, the most eastern star of the Orion's belt. Orion and Running Man nebula approximately center and the star Rigel, in the lower right.
Orion is too low on the sky now and too short of a time to photograph, but hope next fall/winter to photograph the Witch Head reflection nebula which is just to the right of Rigel.
Sony A7III with tracker, processed in Ciril. Photographed from my backyard, but it is really out of this world. Photographed 3-05-21
The beautiful M42 and Running Man nebula in the constellation Orion. Taken with my WO GT81 and Canon 350D
I have posted full details of how this photo was taken on my blog here
The Orion Nebula and the Running Man Nebula (fainter and in the upper corner).
Captured from the back yard on my Nexstar 6 with a Mintron camera.
Amazing to think the nebula is 1300 light years away!!!
Trying to improve the post shot processing..........
Craig Dixon
Peterborough
This didn't turn out quite a good as I wanted but this is the best I could do with my subs. I tried stacking this in DSS using the star freeze, but the end result was horrible. I used comet stacking to stack the photos on the comet and cause streaking in the stars. The blue in the bottom right hand corner is the top of the running man nebula and the four bright points in the top right are the result of the diffraction pattern of the star streaking. The problem with using a small FOV when taking pictures with a long focal length is that you are very limited in the length of exposure due to the comets movement. In this case it was 2 min. 4 min subs showed a lot of movement. Comet Linear was not visible in my guide scope so I could not guide on the comet. Having a self guiding camera would solve the problem of short exposures. WIth 2 min exposures I just couldn't collect enough data.
Image Taken: 27 Sep 09
Object: Comet 217/P Linear
Mount: HEQ5 Pro
Imaging scope: AT8RC
Imaging FL: 1625mm
Imaging camera: unmodified Canon 400D
Lights: 28 x 120 secs
Calibration: 20 x dark, 20 x flat
Guide scope: KWIQ Autogider
Other details: guided with PHD, stacked in DSS processed using comet stacking and processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop
After finally collimating scope and correcting focus for 2 hrs. This nebula is just to the upper left of the Great Orion Nebula. 55 min combined, 5min subs. Meade RCX400,12inch, Starlight Xpress SXVM25C camera, SXVAO adaptive optics for guiding, Maxim DL, PS CS2. Harrold Observatory, UK. 23/01/09
Orion's Sword taken at Peach State Star Gaze 2015. I may take another pass at the color calibration but the subject matter is beautiful. From left to right we have the Flame Nebula, The Horsehead Nebula, The Running Man Nebula and The Great Nebula in Orion (with some of the Trapezium stars in view). This was taken with a consumer Canon t4i, with Canon 200mm F2.8 USM L lens on a CGEM DX German Equatorial mount. I took images from 2AM to 8AM but threw away 30 of 76 sub frames when the focus got bumped out at ~5:30AM during what we call a "meridian flip". I think sleep deprivation played a part in that snafu. Still, the remaining 3.8 hours of subs were somewhat usable to make this image.
Edinburgh, Canon EOS 600Dα with light pollution filter, Ikharos ED refractor D = 80 mm f/5.6, 55 exposures of 45 s each at 1600 ISO, tracking only. Bayer averaged; logarithmic stretch.
Taken from Austin, TX. 15 x 3min subs, Avg combine in DSS, with darks, flats, bias frames. ISO800 Canon XTi unmodded, AT66ED telescope, CG5 mount.
That's NGC1977, the Running Man Nebula, at the top.
Celestron CPC 11'', Hyperstar
Camera: Canon 1100 D (mod)
Autoguide: Orion SSAG, Celestron Sucher 9x50, PHD
Software: ImagePlus, Photoshop CS5 + Anna Morris' actions, PixInsight
77x60sec, ISO 1600
40x20sec, ISO 400
Starry Starry Night. It's a clear, but cool night here. If I wasn't pretty tired and busy with other things I might have broken out the telescope tonight. Some other night. Meanwhile, there's a beautiful view out our back deck. Orion is setting; his shoulder star, bright orange Betelgeuse, can be seen here, along with the trio of stars that make up his belt.
Orion was one of the first constellations my Dad taught me to find when I was in junior high, and when my husband and I were moving back to the midwest from California in the dead of Winter, Orion always rose in front of me like an old friend while I was on the night drive shift heading east through the desert Southwest.
Exposure information: This was on bulb for 9 minutes or so. I did have to push the exposure in post processing about another stop to bring out the stars better. I had wanted a longer exposure in-camera, but my finger slipped on the remote.
Target: Orion Nebula M42 De Mairan's Nebula M43 and Running Man Nebula
Description:Reflection/Emission nebulea, closest star forming region to earth
Location:Taken 29/11/19 from St Helens, Merseyside.
Bortle 8 sky with no moon.
Exposure: 38x 120sec @ iso 800, total integration 76 mins, 20x each darks flats and bias.
Equipment:Altair Astro 60EDF, Altair 1x Flat 60, Canon EOS 1200D (unmodified), Skytech CLS CCD clip filter, Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount, Altair MG32 Mini Guide and Polar Scope, Zwo ASI120MC (RA guide camera)
Software:Sharpcap Pro (polar alignment only), APT, PHD2, Deepsky Stacker, Photoshop.
2011-01-30 ORION NEBULA - Version D
Identical to Version C, but turned to greyscale and inverted, to better show the structure in the outer parts of the nebula
Running Man nebula is seen in the top left
M42 in the constellation of Orion with NGC 1977, the Running Man Nebula taken using a Skywatcher ED120 refractor and a Canon 450D DSLR (unguided) taken by Stephen Bowden (North Yorkshire)
The Running Man Nebula NGC 1977, located in the constellation of Orion, is so named because it looks like a man running in the midst of the cloud of gas. It is a reflection nebula that does not emit any visible light of its own. What we see is the dust illuminated by the light from nearby stars, like the fog around a street lamp.
This past weekend the skies actually cleared and we had decent night of observing so I took some images of the Orion Nebula
I took 10 2 minute exposures and 10 3 second exposures stacked them and 5 2 minute dark frames in Deep Sky Stacker.
This is a composite of the two different exposures to show the outer arms of the nebula and the inner detail.
Taken with the ASI1600MC camera attached to a 120mm Refactor.
A cropped close-up of my latest re-work of my final 2011 M42 image. M42 is the big nebula to the right, M43 is the small round nebula dead center with what looks like a single star in the middle of it, the 'Running man' nebula is on the left.
This is an hour and ten minutes of 6 minute and 10 minute subs with an extra 20 min layer of 20 and 40 second subs (from my first ever image of M42 from March) added in for the core.
Imaged with the Meg72 + FF2 reducer/flattener, Eos 500D (modded) on a HEQ5-Pro, guided with an SX Lodestar, ST80, EQmod and PHD.
Stacking in DSS and editing in PS7.
The Running Man Nebula in Orion. Taken with a QSI-683 through a Vixen VMC200L telescope reduced to F7. This image consists of a stack of 60 1-minute subs.
Running Man nebula
120 min exposure ISO800 in 3 min frames taken with my Canon XSi Cámera on C8 with 6.3 focal reducer
Processed in PI taken from Santiago.
A test with my Helios 44m-4 in severe conditions: severe light pollution (inside the city), clouds, high ISO (maximun for Fuji X-E1 in raw), short exposure (only 2 seconds) and aperture f/5.6 (for avoid lens aberration).
The lens was cleaned but two elements have problems in the coating.
The result was satisfatory.
The orange color in the clouds is due the light pollution.
Colors of the nebula and brighter stars could to appear.
Even in tiny stars we can see the diferent colors (orange and blue).*
* Note: In some astrophoto images in the internet the tiny stars don't have color (appear only white).
Probably the real colors were lost in the post-processing due the extreme increase in the brighter part of the Milkway (the center).
Of course, in these conditions I was unable to bring Barnard's looping and Flame Nebula to the image.
Even Running Man Nebula isn't appear quite well.
Equipment:
* Camera Fuji X-E1 (unmoded)
* Lens adapter M42-Fuji X mount
* Lens Helios 44M-4 58mm f/2 (produced in the USSR by Jupiter from 1958 to 1992)
* Tripod Weifeng WT-3750
Settings:
* Shutter speed 2 seconds
* Aperture f/5.6
* ISO 6400 (max ISO for Fuji-X shooting in raw)
Processing:
* 64 photos (light frames) stacked in the Deep Sky Stacker
* No Dark Frames
* No Offset-Bias Frames
Post-Processing:
* Adobe Camera RAW
* Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended
Mogi das Cruzes - SP / Brazil
M42, with recognisable nebulosity. The Running Man nebula is starting to appear to the left and above of M42. I am stoked with this progress.
The Orion complex including top to bottom, Flame Nebula, Horse Head Nebula, Running Man Nebula and the Orion Nebula plus Orion's Belt.
M42, at roughly 1300 lightyears away and located in our own galaxy, is the middle star of the sword in the constellation of Orion. It's one of the brightest nebula and can even be seen with the naked eye! Off to the left is the Running Man Nebula.
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I've been waiting for the conditions to be good enough to capture this for a few weeks now but I've managed to finally do it. Although the session was cut short due to some non forcasted clouds, which is always the way...
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Total exposure time - 52 minutes 18 seconds (35x 80s and 19x 20s) @ ISO800
The Orion Nebula, (on rt) and The running Man Nebula, (on left) in the constellation of Orion. Shot on 10/2/10 from my front yard on Long Island.
10x30sec
10x90sec
10x180sec
10x360sec
20 each Dark, Flat, Bias and Dark Flat
10/2/10
Temp- low 50's
Explore Scientific 127 ED
Canon T2i modded
CGEM
SSAG
Capture/calibration in Images Plus
Process in PS 4
Location: Copernicus public observatory (Volkssterrenwacht), Overveen, The Netherlands.
Date & time: 5 March 2014, 21.45 Local Time (GMT+1).
Moonlit sky, moon low on the horizon, waxing crescent (21%).
Seeing moderate.
Telescope: Televue 85 refractor with 0,8x flattener/focal reducer.
Mount: Paramount ME II; tracking only.
Camera: Pentax K-r SLR.
Software used: DeepSkyStacker, PhotoPlus.
20 lightframes @30s, 20 darkframes @30s, 20 biasframes, 20 flatframes; RAW-format @1600ASA.
Left most star in Orion's Belt showing at the bottom left with the Flame Nebula and Horsehead Nebula surrounding it. The sword of Orion is to the right with the Great Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula. Taken with 135mm piggybacked on telescope.
This is the same as my previous upload but with slightly different processing to sharpen the image slightly and bring out more detail.
* Camera Fuji X-E1
* Lens Canon EF 80-200mm f/4.5~f/5.6
@135mm f/5.6
* Fotodiox Pro Lens Adapter Canon EF Mount - Fuji X Mount
* Tripod Weifeng WT-3750
* 77 X 2 seconds stacked in the Deep Sky Stacker software
* ISO 6400
* No dark frames
* No offset-bias frames
* All post-processing in the Adobe Lightroom Mobile
I tried using 80mm but in this focal lenght and this lens adapter, infinity focus is impossible .
So, I changed the zoom to 135mm (minimum focal lenght to have infinity focus or close to it).
Results:
A little bit of star trail in 2 seconds but acceptable.
In 4 seconds shutter speed the star trail is very evident.
Lens aberration in this aperture is acceptable, with no astigmatism and very little coma in the corners.
Running Man Nebula begin to appear but more exposure time or aperture is necessary for more details.
A good result considering short exposure and aperture f/5.6.