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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.
Growing up, I'd always gawked in awe at a giant poster of the Horsehead nebula at my father's workplace. Never thought I'd end up taking a picture of it myself.
From left to right: Flame nebula, Horsehead nebula, Running man nebula and the Orion nebula.
The Great Orion nebula is one of the closest massive star forming regions to us.
Equipment:
Camera - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II
Lens - Konica Hexanon AR 135mm F3.2
Mount - Skywatcher Star Adventurer
M42, the Orion Nebula, just above and outside of this image, and NGC 1977, the Running Man Nebula, sitting in the lower left corner, typically steal the show in this part of the Orion Molecular Cloud. M42 is the most active stellar nursery in our stellar neighborhood. The image below however, focuses on what lies between M42 and NGC 1977. The nebulae streaming through the center of the image is known as the 2/3 region of the Orion Molecular cloud. The upper limit of this stream is M43, DeMairan’s Nebula. M43 hosts a number of stars, but at its center lies an irregular variable star with a magnitude between 6.5-7.6. It is only 7 minutes of arc away from the trapezium region of M42, and therefore bathed by its light.
The SIMBAD site pointed out several Herbig-Haro objects. (Turbulent patches of nebulosity that are typically associated with newborn stars. ) The jets from new stars often send out partially ionized gas at speeds up to several hundred km/hr. These jets can collide and interact with the interstellar medium (gas and dust between stars) forming the Herbig-Haro-object. HH41 and 42 can be seen in the lower 3rd of the image, close to center and slightly right of the 9th magnitude star Tycho 4774:762. They are small red, tadpole like objects.
Two beams of light are streaming out of the right side of the dark molecular cloud that is located to the right (South) of NGC 1977(Running Man). UV radiation from new stars in that area has eroded holes in the cloud and the light is now shining across the stellar stream in the direction of M43.
Close to 350 protostars and pre-mainsequence stars have been detected in this Molecular cloud.
“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Acquisition information:
Location- Starlodge Observatory, Fairview UT
Date- December 2018
Telescope- Astro Tech 16" Ritchey Chretien
Camera- Atik 16200
LRGB: 240:80:80:80
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
Imaged in January, 2025, this is the one of the first trial images using the DwarfLab Dwarf 3 Smart Telescope. This image is of the Running Man Nebula (Top). M42(Orion Nebula. The Dwarf 3 clearly provides a wideer field of view which, is quite wonderful. It also natively provides an EQ mode. preventing field rotation, eliminating considerable noise.
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.
M42 (Großer Orionnebel) mit "Running Man" Nebel.
Aufgenommen mit ED107 auf Celestron CGEM Montierung.
Ort: SaharaSky Hotel in Marokko.
M42 and "Running ma" nebula. Taken with ED107 on CGEM.
Location: SaharaSky Hotel Morocco.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The Orion complex including top to bottom, Flame Nebula, Horse Head Nebula, Running Man Nebula and the Orion Nebula plus Orion's Belt.
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.
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
M42, M43 and NGC1977 - The Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula in Halpha. Taken the same night as my LRGB attempt. The subexposures were a bit short, so this one is a little noisy, even after noise reduction.
Imaging scope: Orion EON 80ED
Imaging Camera: ST8300M (capture with Equinox Image)
Filters: Baader filters in FW5-8300 filter wheel
Guide scope: AT8RC
Guide camera: Starfish Fishcamp (guided with PHD)
Mount: Atlas EQ-G
Calibration and processing in PixInsight.
Halpha: 5x3min (1x1)
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.
* 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.
Cropped image of M42 Orion Nebula with Running Man nebula to the left. Taken with 135mm piggybacked on telescope.
Orion Nebula M42 plus a hint of the Running man nebula. Cannon 1100d 55-250mm @250mm. Egg shaped stars again same as Pleiades.
From left to right: Flame Nebula, Horsehead Nebula, Running Man Nebula, Orion Nebula
Total exposure of 12 minutes and 47 seconds at ISO 800
Taken with a modified Canon 300D and a 200mm f/4 lens mounted on a Vixen Polarie, taken on October 5, 2013
We captured the Running Man nebula (Sh2-279) together with M42, the Great Orion Nebula on February 22, 2021. Sh2-279 is an HII region and bright nebulae that includes a reflection nebulae located in the constellation Orion. It is the northernmost part of the asterism known as Orion's Sword, lying 0.6° north of the Orion Nebula. The reflection nebula embedded in Sh2-279 is popularly known as the Running Man Nebula. This nebula (Sh2-279) is ~1,500 light-years away and ~7.5 light years across.
This nebula comprises three NGC nebulae, NGC 1973, NGC 1975, and NGC 1977 that are divided by darker nebulous regions. It also includes the open cluster NGC 1981. The whole reflection nebula region is likely excited by the hot young star (YSO) called 42 Orionis or HD 37018 in NGC 1977, which appears as a 4.6 magnitude star some 3.8′ from the center of Sh2-279. Other massive stars include the yellow giant 45 Orionis and the variable KX Orionis.
We captured our image using a Stellarvue Access 80mm refractor fitted with a Stellarvue Field flattener and a dual NB (Narrow Band) filter for capturing deep red H-Alpha and blue/green OIII emissions. Normally, this primarily reflection nebula is captured using broadband (RGB) filters, but here wanted to bring out Narrow Band nebulae hidden within.
We captured the Running Man nebula as a part of our Great Orion nebula image and then cropped the image to get the above image.
The imaging camera was an H-Alpha modded Nikon D5300 at ISO 1600,. Exposure details - f7 and a total exposure time of 207 min (103x 2.01 min). We separated the mono HA and mono OIII files in APP (Astro Pixel Processor), reduced gradients in each mono file and then recombined them in APP and post-processed in StarTools to get this image. Enjoy!
This is the same as my previous upload but with slightly different processing to sharpen the image slightly and bring out more detail.
Fazia um tempo que não capturava esta nebulosa. A mais brilhante e famosa do céu: Órion e logo abaixo a nebulosa do homem correndo (M42 ou NGC1976 e NGC1977). Captura feita da cidade, bortle 8/9, utilizando filtro Optolong L-Pro. Foi aplicada técnica de HDR para trazer detalhes da nebulosa, porém como todas as exposições foram longas (120s), o núcleo ficou estourado. Eu particularmente gostei do resultado.
Has been some time since I captured this nebula. The most bright and famous in the sky: Orion and below it, the running man nebula (M42 or NGC1976 and NGC1977). I took the pictures from the city (bortle 8/9) using an Optolong L-Pro filter. I used the HDR to bring some details of the center of the nebula, but all my exposures were 120s long and this blowed up the core of the nebula. But I liked the result.
Canon SL2 modified, William Optics zs sd (66/388mm), ISO 1600. Guiding with Asiair and ASI290mc in an adapted finderscope 50mm, Eq5 Sky-watcher mount and AstroEq tracking mod. 38 Light Frames of 120s, 11 darks, 50 flats and 55 bias. 01h16 minutes total exposure, using Optolong L-Pro filter. Processing on Pixinsight and Photoshop.
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M42 and M43 at center with the Running Man nebula in the bottom right. This is an average of 7 exposures of 500 sec each taken the night of Oct 13 2012, in the Los Gatos mountains (PAS dark site). Images acquired with Orion Starshoot Pro Color (v1) camera, on Pentax 105EDHF Petzval refractor, with Baader MPCC coma reducer, Schneider UVIR filter. Scope biggyback guided with a Vixen A80SS using a Meade DSI for guide camera run by PHD. Telescopes mounted on Orion Atlas EQ/G mount. The initial images were cleaned of hot pixels and USB dropouts then converted to RGB color using personal software. These 7 images were then stacked in personal software using Median, then compressed with the Log(ArcSinh) and combined with 5thRoot functions. Final image processing was completed in Adobe CS5.
Camera: Nikon D50
Exposure: 7m (7 frames) ISO 800 RGB
Focus Method: Prime focus
Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm
Mount: LXD75
Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian
Guided: No
Stacked: DeepSkyStacker
Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop
Location: Flintstone, GA
Most famous and brightest emission nebula, below Orion Belt in Orion constellation. It's about 1500 light years away and contains lot of newborn stars. On pictures taken from larger scopes (8" and larger) you can notice some parts in the middle, where distant star systems are forming. You can see here not only M42, which is the largest, upper part, but also M43 (little "," coma below) and Running Man Nebula (the blue one) on bottom.
Taken in March 2007 with Synta 80ED and Canon 300D.
My loadstar guider usb plug failed so this is a shot 140 frames at 40 seconds each unguided.
Skywatcher Explorer 190 MN Pro telescope,Skywatcher EQ6 Pro mount. Starlight Xpress SXVF M25C camera. No light pollution filter used. Processed and acquired using Maxim DL5, Photoshop CS4 64 Bit. Harrold Observatory, Harrold, Bedfordshire, UK. 06/02/10
M42 and M43, The Orion Nebula and De Mairan's Nebula. In addition, Running Man Nebula is seen in the top of the photo.
The Running Man Nebula, one hour in each H-alpha and RGB filters. Imaged from the U.K. with an AG8 Newtonian Astrograph and an SXVF-H16 camera.
Wide angle of Orion. The three bright stars on the left are Mintaka, Alnilam, and Alnitak which make up the belt of Orion and the nebulae NGC 2024 - the Flame Nebula, and Barnard 33 - the Horse Head Nebula just off the bottom star. On the right hand side are NGC1973, NGC1975, NGC1977 - the Running Man Nebula; M43 - De Mairan's Nebula; and M42 - the Orion Nebula. The three of which make up the sword of Orion.
Canon 20Da
200mm @ f2.8
One 1 minute and one 5 minute photo stacked and processed in Photoshop.
Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula (M42) and The Running Man Nebula (M43) 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. About 1344 light Years from Earth.