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M42 Orion Nebula & NGC1977 The Running Man Nebula in the constellation of Orion
Photo by Dave Simpsons
The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the above deep image, faint wisps and sheets of dust and gas are particularly evident. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye just below and to the left of the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars known as the Trapezium, the Orion Nebula contains many stellar nurseries. These nurseries contain hydrogen gas, hot young stars, proplyds, and stellar jets spewing material at high speeds. Also known as M42, the Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.
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). The image was compressed using Log(Log) functions. 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 Maxim DL Essentials using Average, then compressed twice with the Log function. Final image processing was completed in Adobe CS5.
M42 and Running Man Nebula taken with a modified Canon 20D through a Stellarvue 115T20. Two minute subs with a total integration time of 26 minutes.
Orion's belt, including the three main stars, flame nebula, horsehead nebula, running man nebula, Great Orion nebula and numerous other areas of illuminated gas.
NGC 1977 - Running Man Nebula
Stack Size:20
Exposure: 180s
ISO: 6400
Lens: 8in SCT
Camera: Canon Rebel T7i with Astro Mod
Guider: Celeston Off Axis Guider
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI 290mm mini
M42 - The Orion Nebula (center) and The Running Man Nebula (left) - NGC 1973, NGC 1975, and NGC 1977
I've imaged the Orion Nebula at least three or four times before, but this is the first time I've captured the Running Man Nebula as well.
The Running Man Nebula is a reflection nebula that glows because of the massive nearby stars being born in the Orion Nebula. The reason is has three catalog designations is that the dark regions that run down the middle indicate that is is actually three distinct and nearly parallel clouds.
Equipment used:
TMB92L
Vixen Field Flattener and .8x Reducer
Baader Moon and Skyglow Filter
Baader UHC-S Filter
SBIG ST-i Autoguider
Canon XSi
Orion Atlas Mount
Image processing with PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom 5
This reflection nebula, also known as NGC 1977, is located in the constellation of Orion about 1,500 light years from Earth. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year, or about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). A reflection nebula doesn't emit any visible light on its own; instead it's illuminated by light from nearby stars.
The Orion Nebula in Orion (M42), also to the left is the 'Running Man Nebula' The Orion Nebula is great star forming region in our own galaxy and is one of the most popular amatuer astronomy targets. The Orion Nebula can easily be seen as a greenish misty patch when looking at the middle star in Orions Sword (Not the belt!).
M42 Orion Nebula + NGC1977 Running Man Nebula, FLT98 @ f/6.3 + Optolong L-eXtreme filter + Mallincam DS432M, gain 20, bin 1, min gamma, 58x20s
The Orion belt region taken with a modified Canon 20d through a 200mm telephoto lens. 30-2 minute subs. Shown are the Great Nebula, the Running Man Nebula, the Flame Nebula and the Horsehead Nebula.
In the constellation of Orion in the region of the sword lie the Great Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula.
The Great Nebula of Orion or M42 with the Running Man Nebula above it. Taken January 5 2010 from my suburban Sunnyvale, California back yard. It is a combination of 6 x 600sec exposures through a Pentax 105EDHF 4 inch refractor. Camera was an Orion Starshoot Pro Color (V1) camera, at prime focus. Telescope was mounted on an Orion Atlas EQ/G mount. Guiding was by an Orion Off-AxisGuider using a Meade DSI (v1) imager. Stacking was with self-created software, which creates various intensity compressions. This is the square root of the luminance. The final image was slightly adjusted in Photoshop CS3.
The Running Man Nebula reprocessed with 5.6 hours of data collected in 5 min subimages. This is an image that is reprocessed from the same data as the other 5.6h image of the same name. In this image, the stretching does not cutoff the black edge of the data.
Date: 4, 14, 17, 18, & 19 March 2023
Location: Oklahoma City, OK USA
Time: 2230 CST
Camera: ZWO ASI 183 MC
Telescope: AT8RC
Focal Length: 1625 mm
Rel. Aperture: f/8
Mount: Atlas EQ-G
Image:
300s Sub-images
Number of sub-images: 66
Gain: 0
Software:
Sequence Generator Pro
EQMOD
PHD2
Platesolve2
Nebulosity4
Adobe Photoshop Elements 21
Telescope: 0.37m (14.5") Ritchey-Chrétien f/9.0 (LightBuckets LB003)
Camera: Apogee Alta U16M
FOV: 37.8 x 37.8 arcminute
Subs:
Luminance (6 x 150s, 1x1)
Red (4 x 150s, 2x2)
Green (4 x 150s, 2x2)
Blue (4 x 150s, 2x2)
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
RGB combine in Maxim DL Essentials
Processed Lum merge in photoshop CS3
Cloudy nights and getting deeper into editing in PixInsight. Arcsin stretching preserves more of the brighter parts of the Nebula, and gives more saturated star colours. Arc-sin stretch also reveals more of the dark dusty regions and noise!
RedCat51
Optolong L-pro
ZWO ASI183MCPro
Skywatcher AZ-GTi (eq)
Uniguide32
ZWO ASI178MM
32 x 120s light frames at gain120 over two nights in November and December 2023 at Bortle 4 outside Tromsø. Lots of northern lights in light frames.
Stacked and edited in PI.
M42 - the great nebula in Orion - this is a draft, not happy with the black point being clipped, and I have more data to add from the central core section.
Also included is the running man nebula on the right.
The Great Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula taken at 9:15pm on 29.12.11. I have realigned / collimated my scope and Hyperstar lens over the past couple of days. Longer exposure than earlier image (5 x 60s @ ISO1600, stacked with Registax6, processed with PS CS4 and NeatImage).
M42 Orion Nebula + NGC1977 Running Man Nebula, ZS66 @ f/5.9 + Astro Hutech IDAS-NBX filter + ASI294MC, gain 450, bin 2, 70x20s
Orion Nebula and the Running Man nebula
Slightly burnt out core though! Might take some 30s exposures next time and do photoshop magic.
5x60 seconds
5x180 seconds
5x300 seconds
Skywatcher 200p
HEQ5 Pro
Canon 1000D
QHY5 guidecam
Primarily a reflection nebula positioned just north of M42 and M43, NGC 1977 is imbedded within a complex that includes emission and dark nebulae. The stars here are just 2-4 million years old. The brightest is 42 Ori, a B1 variable.
January 20, 2020
January 29, 2020
Blue Mountain Vista Observatories
148 x 2 min lum
16 x 2 min red
16 x 2 min blue
16 x 2 min green
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total: 6.5 hours
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Orion Atlas mount, Orion 8” f3.9 Newtonian astrograph, Paracorr 2" coma corrector, 50 mm f3.2 guider/ QHY 5L-II, ASI1600MM PRO camera, ZWO electronic filter wheel and ZWO 31 mm filters. Software: Stellarium, EQMOD, AstroPhotography Tools, PHD2.
The Great Orion Nebula (M42) with its companion The Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977). Taken from Conon Bridge on 23.12.11.
The Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula Messier 42 and 43. M42 is the brightest star forming, and the brightest diffuse nebula in the sky, and also one of the brightest deep sky objects of all. M42 is estimated to be 24 light years across.
This is M42 (Orion Nebula) and NGC 1977 (Running Man Nebula). Image taken with an 80mm f/6 Orion ED80T CF APO refractor. Astro-Tech Field Flattener and Astromomik CLS filter.
This is a stack of sixteen five 5 minute exposures combined with ten 20 second exposures for the bright core region of M42. Image taken on 12/1/2011 and 12/26/2011
Date: 25 Nov 2011
Subject: NGC 1977 The Running Man Nebula
Scope: Meade 4501, 0.5x Antares telereducer
Mount: CG-5
Guiding: DS-60 + DSI Ic + PHD
Camera: DSI IIc
Acquisition: Nebulosity 2
Exposure: 22 x 300 s
Stacking: DSS, Kappa-sigma clipping, 2x drizzle
Processing: CS5 curves & levels, saturation, AT star reduction, local contrast enhancement