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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
Great Orion Nebula, M42, with M43 and the Running Man nebula above it. Total of 5 x 10 min exposures on an Orion Starshoot Pro Color V1 camera. Imaged through Pentax 105EDHF refractor, atop Orion Atlas mount, autoguided with a Celestron Orion 80mm refractor having a Meade DSI1 imager. Processed in personal software, then processed for with flats, darks, stacked, and converted to color in MaximDL Essentials. Image converted with Squareroot function in MDLE, then processed and sharpened in PhotoshopCS3. Image taken Jan 4 2010 from the backyard in Sunnyvale CA.
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
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
Took 4 hours of M42 exposures last week & only 42 minutes were unaffected by cloud, contrails, etc.
First attempt at Synthetic Luminance Layer application. Scott Rosen's LLRGB process. Some Running Man Nebula coming out on the right.
Orion/Running man Nebula. 22/09/15
Core blown out but best I could do.
6x300sec lights, 3 dark & 10 bias.
800iso,200pds,Nikon D3200,ST80/ZWO guided. PS6/Lightroom.
The top left image is a stacked image of the Running Man Nebula using 66 300-second sub-images. The details of capturing this image are in the image called Running Man (NGC 1977) 5.6 h. This is the unstreached color image that has been color balanced by Nebulosity 4.0. Its histogram is shown in the upper left corner.
The upper right image is the original stack image that is scaled up by Nebulosity 4 using the Levels tool and setting its power to 0.14. Its shows that the light signal has be moved to the right (increased) by the scaling. None of the signal has been lost -- just brightened.
The middle left image is stretched from the upper right one by adjusting the black point up to 39000, which is about 4000 points below the first indications of signal of the target signal. This stretches the image without causing a loss of signal information.
This process is repeated several times: After the 4th stretch, the peak in the histogram has been spread over a large portion the histogram of this image (blue line in the middle image on the right). When this image is pushed right (moving the Levels power to 0.14) for the 5th time, a double hump is observed in the histogram. The small first hump is an indication that the image is banding.
For the 5th black point adjustment, the black point is being set at 45000, which causes no loss of signal because the bottom of the signal is a few thousand point above this black point. This image can be exported as a JPEG image for final cleanup in Adobe Photoshop.
This is a number of images combined to give a wide field of view from the Flame Nebula (NGC2034) past the Horsehead Nebula (B33) and onwards to the Running Man Nebula (NGC1977) and finally The Great Orion Nebula (M42)
One of the images I streamed live during the "Month of Live Astronomy" shows I broadcast during 2012.
Image of The Orion Nebula, an emission reflective nebula (M42, in the constellation of Orion) with the "Running Man Nebula" (NGC 1975) to the left. Taken in January 2022 with a William Optics Zenithstar 61, 350mm F5.9.
The Running Man Nebula reprocessed with PixinSight using 5.3 hours of data collected in 5 min subimages. This is an image that is reprocessed from the same data as the other 5.3h 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: 64
Gain: 0
Software:
Sequence Generator Pro
EQMOD
PHD2
Platesolve2
PixinSight
24/01/2022
Skywatcher 72 ED
Stock Nikon 5100
ISO 3200: 103 x 40 seconds
Skywatcher Star Adventurer
DSS
Camera Raw/PS
We captured the Great Orion nebula (M42) and the Running Man nebula (NGC 1977) on January 28, 2022. The Running man nebula also contains the open star cluster NGC 1981 that powers this Reflection nebula.
We used our SVT105 refractor and a Nikon D5300 camera fitted with a dual Narrowband filter with bandpasses for SII and OIII emissions. We used our SVT105 refractor at f7 and ISO1600 for a total exposure of 215 minutes with this filter. Then combined the 188 min of data from Ha & OIII dualband filter captured in 2020 to get a total exposure of 402 min.
Orion Nebula in Constellation Orion
Also shows De Mairan's Nebula M43 (looks like bird's head)
Also shows Running Man Nebula NGC 1982 (to the left)
Red coloration due to Hydrogen Alpha emissions
Blue is reflection from the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex
Black areas are dark nebula preventing light from escaping
55 x 120 sec exposures
iOpron SkyGuider Pro tracker
Canon 70-200mm f4L
ASI283MC uncooled camera