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The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way 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 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.
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 downstairs 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'.
Credit Wiki
3D Flythrough of the Orion Nebula: youtu.be/GjzTM6xEyJM
Michael L Hyde (c) 2015
Here is a version of M42 "The Great Nebula in Orion" processed in HST (Hubble Palette) with SII assigned to red channel, H-Alpha to green channel and OIII to blue channel. Shot at native resolution (F5.5).
An unusual looking M42 with this method and an even more unusual looking NGC 1977 (The Running Man Nebula)
Total Exposure time 12 hours.
Date of Shoot Nov 19th, 29th, Dec 3rd, 5th, 11th and 14th 2012
All exposures unbinned
H-Alpha, OIII, SII 7 x 30 min each
H-Alpha, OIII, SII 30 x 1 min each
QHY9M monochrome CCD cooled to -30C www.astrofactors.com
Thomas M. Back TMB 92SS F5.5 APO Refractor Astronomics
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount (with MKS 4000)
Image Aquisition Maxim DL
Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack
Registration of images in Registar
Post Processing Photoshop CS5
Clear Skies
Terry
The Orion Nebula is one of the largest and brightest deep-sky objects that exists in our quadrant of the Milky Way galaxy. It is a star forming region that consists of gas and dust that is being excited and illuminated by hot, young stars near to the center of the nebula. Given any clear and relatively dark night during the winter (in the northern hemisphere) it can been seen with the naked eye as a fuzzy "star" in the constellation Orion (look for it as the middle "star" in the sword that hangs below the belt of Orion the Hunter).
Photographed on the morning of October 1, 2013 from a moderately dark-sky location using a 5 inch aperture, f/4.2 telescope and a Sony NEX-5N digital camera (ISO1600, a stack of one hundred and seventy-nine images each exposed for 30 seconds with an additional one hundred and forty-one images exposed for 8 seconds each, producing a total exposure integration time of approximately one hour and 48 minutes). Tracking for each of the exposures was performed by a Celestron CGEM mount (no manual or auto guiding, standard sidereal rate after All-Star polar alignment).
This is a straight RGB image with no narrow-band enhancements that was taken with an unmodified, APS-C format, consumer-grade digital camera (i.e. Sony NEX-5N).
To see a closeup of the central core of the nebula and the famous Trapezium star cluster you can view my post entitled "The Trapezium and the Core of the Great Orion Nebula (M42)" (LINK).
Image registration, integration, and adjustments done with PixInsight v01.08.00.1023 RC7 with final tweaks in Photoshop CS5 and Apple's Preview Application.
This photo is best viewed against a dark background (press the "L" key to enter the Flickr light box).
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L 300s x2 + 120s x2 + 30s x2
RGB 300s x2 (binned 2x2) + 120s x2 + 30s x2 (each)
LRGB
SBIG STL-11000M
Takahashi FSQ-ED 106mm
Paramount PME
DSS > PixInsight (HDR technique as per Kayron Mercieca) > PS
As some of you may know, I've been interested in capturing some deep space objects in my images and have been doing some testing with a couple of tracking devices. And after a lot of patience and testing, I'm happy to report that I've finally made some good progress. In-fact, you may have seen one of my composite images of Comet ISON a little while back. And while my tracker is really meant for wide-field astrophotography, I've gotten pretty good with it... to the point where I've been able to use even my telephoto lenses with impressive results.
Here, I really pushed my techniques and my gear to the limits with a composite image of a part of the Orion Constellation called the sword. I thought I did a pretty good job of capturing the colors & details in three nebula clouds including the Orion Nebula and the Running Man Nebula - a definite first for me!
There is a lot more to this post... see the rest of the backstory, the techniques, and get free wallpaper from www.coloradocaptures.com/orions-sword-winter-sky
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M42, the Orion Nebula, and Running Man Nebula, visible to the naked eye as the middle star in Orion's sword. One of the most photographed areas of the winter sky, because of it's multi-colored beauty and details, and because it is so bright. It's about1,350 light-years away. Taken with an Esprit 80mm, (Fl 400mm) and QHY268C. I combined 1 min exposures (40 min) to bring out the detail in the bright core, with mostly 5 min exposures (25hr 18m) to bring out the fainter outlying dust clouds.
The great Orion Nebula and the Running man nebula. Another winter, more data added to this target that I don’t believe will ever be totally finished, just evolving.
Equipment:
-Celestron Rasa 8”
-ZWO ASI183MM Pro
-Celestron AVX
-ZWO ASI Air Pro
-ZWO 120mm mini
-ZWO mini guide scope
-ZWO EAF
-Orion LRGB
-ZWO 7nm Ha
30x120” lights(RGB), 500x60” Hydrogen Alpha, 24x300” Hydrogen Alpha, with darks and bias frames.
Processed in AstroPixel Processor and Photoshop
I do like annotating images!
Had no idea the Running Man nebula is also Sharpless 2-279 or the Orion nebula is also Sharpless 2-281. Doubt I'll retain that for long.
Van den Bergh 42 is a small reflection nebula but it would take a much deeper image to show up the faint blue nebulosity.
NGC 1980 is a small open cluster.
NGC 1981 is a personal favourite open cluster as it was the first object I tried to find with a telescope.
Image Solver and Annotate Image scripts in PixInsight do all the hard work.
Skywatcher Star Adventurer Pro tracker.
Polar alignment with QHY PoleMaster.
Taken with a modified Canon 80D with an IDAS D1 light pollution filter and a Samyang 135mm lens wide open at f/2.
40 x 50 second subs at ISO100.
90 x flat frames
90 x dark frames
90 x bias frames
Image processed in PixInsight 1.8.6 and Photoshop 2019 CC
This image was captured a few weeks ago from the garden during a very cold but clear night.
The image depicts the Orion Constellation with contains Orion Nebula (M42 or Messier 42) and just above the Running Man Nebula (Sh2-279). With the three stars (from top), are Mintaka, Alnilam and Alnitak, which is also home to the Horsehead Nebula.
I believe at the top left corner is the Boogeyman Nebula. If this is true then this is the first time I've been able to capture this particular nebula.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Nikon D780 at prime focus. EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
42 frames used in final processing.
15 x 30s @ ISO 1600
9 x 25s @ ISO 2500
6 x 25s @ ISO 2000
6 x 20s @ ISO 2000
6 x 20s @ ISO 1600
Also 18 Dark Frames
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and final levels adjusted with Adobe Lightroom & G.I.M.P. Final image cropped.
Did not get satisfactory flat frames on this one, so I may re-visit this at a later date
Total exposure : 43 minutes
86x30 sec subs(no dark,bias flat frames)
Camera : Nikon D5600
Lens : 70-300 mm kit lens @300mm f6.3
Mount : iOptron Skyguider pro
Bortle scale :Class 4
Desde muy pequeño siempre vi con admiración las estrellas que conforman el cinturón de Orion, considerándolas mis favoritas, pero hasta no hace mucho conocí que a su alrededor existen varias impresionantes "nubes de polvo y gas"
Ver por primera vez la Nebulosa de Orion, también conocida como M42, es algo extraordinario, con esos increíbles colores y formas, es algo que te deja sin palabras y que te hace apreciar que existe belleza mas allá de nuestro mundo y de lo que nuestros ojos nos permiten ver.
A un costado también pueden ver la Nebulosa del hombre corriendo o NGC 1977, a la que sinceramente no le encuentro esa forma.
Orion Nebula, Running Man Nebula, etc. Wide-field, Narrowband composition.
FSQ106EDXIII, FLI PL16803.
SHO 468:678:630 - 29.6hours total.
Also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976.
Yesterday was very significant day for our astronomical association. We had meeting with President of Republic of Croatia. He became our honorary member and he will be patronage for next year Ten days of astronomy in Daruvar. We are so proud about this. It's a great honor.
Also we had assembly. It was the occasion for socializing with other astronomers. We were at Petrov vrh, which is at an altitude of 547.00 m. Night was so clear. It was amazing to see so bright sky with so many stars.
Special thanks for making this photo, goes to Alan Jadanic, who was so kind to borrow us his Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
Location, date and time: Petrov vrh, 18.11.2011.
Optical system: 120/900 ED APO
Camera and filters: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Montage and guiding: NEQ6, Ascom camera, PHD Guiding
Total time: 42 min 14 sec, 18 light frames, ISO 800
Software: DSS, PS-CS3
Thanks for your kind comments & faves
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Lying just south of the three stars that form Orion's belt, Orion's sword contains M42,M43 and NGC 1977 (The Running Man Nebula), a complex cloud of glowing hydrogen gas and dust. This hotbed of star formation, historcally refered to as the Great Orion Nebula, M42 lies about 1350 light years away, making it the brightest and closest star forming region to Earth
This is an (L+Ls)RGB image (60+60, 60, 60, 60 minutes). All subs were 5 mins (unbinned). An additional LRGB image (4, 4, 4, 4 minutes) using 30 sec subs was blended in to expose detail around the Trapezium. FOV is 2.38 x 1.59 deg @ 2.21 arcsec/pixel.
Takahashi TOA-150 refractor @ F5.5 (FL=825mm) using an SBIG STL 11000M camera and Takahashi 645 Super Reducer.
Date: 13 November, 10 December 2013
Integration: Ha: 50 minutes, RGB: 80 minutes
Canon Rebel T3i / 600D/ Kiss X5 - astro-modded.
Telescope: Officina Stellare APO APM130 -780.
Astronomik's CLS & Ha 12nm Clip Filter.
Mounted on a SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro Mount.
Guiding: Skywatcher Startravel 80/ QHY5 Guider
Imaged at Waterlooville, UK.
This image shows the result of combined hydrogen alpha and DSLR RGB data. All data was captured using Backyard EOS camera control software and processed in PixInsight. The colour is somewhat muted in comparison to many "Orion shots", my intention was to present this image objectively, just the correction of the camera's colour bias and a white balance adjustment was made.
Poncitlan Jalisco, noviembre 2019
18x300s, ISO 800, Canon t3i cooling (Dr Chaos) -15 °C
Takahashi epsilon 160 f3.3,
Astromania 60mm f4 + astropi3
CGEM Celestron
Siril + Darktable
This is a portrait of Orion the Hunter with exposures and processing to emphasize the complex and colourful array of bright and dark nebulas within its boundaries.
The largest feature is the arc of Barnard's Loop, a possible supernova remnant or stellar wind-blown bubble that encircles Orion. It is officially catalogued as Sharpless 2-276, and is usually plotted as just the easternmost arc, though it extends down and below Orion, all the way over to blue Rigel at bottom right.
To the right of Rigel is the blue Witch Head Nebula, IC 2118, a reflection nebula lit by Rigel. Fainter blue nebulosity extends above it. Below the three stars of the Belt of Orion just below centre is the nebulosity in the Sword of Orion that includes the dark Horsehead Nebula and below that the very bright Orion Nebula complex, Messier 42/M43, plus the bluish Running Man Nebula, above it, catalogued as NGC 1973-5-7.
The Belt and Sword are wrapped in other fainter red emission nebulas, patches of blue reflection nebulas, all amid a backround of dark yellow-brown dust clouds. The latter are densest above the left star of the Belt, Alnitak, with a dark lane containing the small but bright reflection nebula Messier 78. Just above Alnitak is the orange Flame Nebula.
At top is the large circular emission nebula Sharpless 2-264, surrounding the head of Orion and the star Meissa and a loose open star cluster Collinder 69. The nebula has become known as the Angelfish Nebula. It sits above orange Betelgeuse (at left) and blue-white Bellatrix (at right), marking the shoulders of Orion.
This is a stack of 42 x 2-minute exposures with the rare Samyang RF85mm f/1.4 lens stopped down to f/2.8, on the Canon EOS Ra camera at ISO 800. The lens was equipped with a 77mm Nisi Clear Night broadband light pollution reduction filter which helps improve contrast and reduce sky gradients. The camera was on the Star Adventurer 2i tracker for tracked but unguided exposures over 84 minutes. Taken from home on a very clear night November 18/19, 2023.
NGC1977, The Running man nebula in Orion. This is a fresh set of data gathered after some promising results (and good comments) from my 21 minute test session. It's still a bit noisy so maybe another session will help.
Skywatcher Explorer 200P
NEQ6 Pro
EOS1100D (astro mod) + CLS clip filter
Guided with QHY5 mono finder/guider + IR/UV cut filter
22x 300s RGB @ISO800
+ darks + flats + dark flats + bias frames
Stacked in DSS and processed in Pixinsight & CS3
During my recent maiden deep sky photography session imaging Orion and its neighborhood, Two exposures caught my attention. There were meteor like trails bisecting the region between the Running Man Nebula and Horsehead Nebula. They did not look like airplane trails which have dots at periodic intervals besides what are the chances that two meteors were aligned? Guessing these might be from the same object, I asked my friend Andrew Klinger if these looked like Iridium flares which happen when sunlight is reflected by the satellite’s solar panels towards us. Think of it like a mirrored window on the building which flashes that annoying glare into your yes when you are driving along the highway.
Andrew said “Nice! Must be a tumbling satellite. Since they are lined up with each other and periodically reflecting sunlight. I’ve never caught one of those before, nice capture”
The Tesla Roadster with its Starman and Tiangong 1 the Chinese space station came to mind first and I had to find out what it was. I looked up the timestamp when the pictures were taken and using Stellarium, one of the best tools available for planning astrophotography, I was able to identify this object as the Globalstar M030 satellite.
Here is what I found about Globalstar M030
It was the 5730th spacecraft.
Launched: 10 July 1999 at 8h45 UTC, from Cape Canaveral's SLC-17B, by a Delta 7925 (Delta 7420-10 272)
Mission:
Globalstar M30 was one of a planned 52 (48 operational and 4 on-orbit spares) satellites in the Space Systems Loral "Big LEO" global mobile communications network offering global real time voice, data and fax, was launched on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral. The satellite was 3-axis stabilized and employed magnetometers on a deployable boom, sun sensors, GPS as attitude sensors, and carried two deployable solar arrays delivering 1100 W. The satellites in the first-generation constellation were designed to operate at full performance for a minimum of 7.5 years. The satellites in the system will be placed into low earth orbit in eight operational planes of six satellites each with a 1,414 kilometer circular orbit inclined at 52 degrees.
Later I found a NASA Presentation to the 51st Session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space United Nations which said that during 2013 four Globalstar commercial communications spacecraft including M030 reached end of mission and were maneuvered into high altitude disposal orbits. (up 500 km).
Where Satellites Go When They Die?
A graveyard orbit, also called a junk orbit or disposal orbit, is an orbit that lies away from common operational orbits. One significant graveyard orbit is a supersynchronous orbit well above geosynchronous orbit. Satellites are typically moved into such orbits at the end of their operational life to reduce the probability of colliding with operational spacecraft and generating space debris. Some satellites in low earth orbit are brought down and burn up to the most part in earth’s atmosphere upon reentry or are crashed in the south pacific in a region nicknamed “Satellite Cemetery”. Others like our friend Globalstar M030 are bumped up a few hundred kilometers higher out of way of the operational satellites where they will rest for possibly millennia. To keep them from causing harm like the one that gave Sandra Bullock’s Dr. Ryan Stone such hardship in the movie, “Gravity”, these satellites are “Passivated” meaning, all fuel is used up or dumped, batteries discharged and everything shut off and basically taken off life support.
So is this the final solution? It surely does not sound like it. It is like the spent nuclear fuel that is entombed deep inside mountains or stored somehow on reactor sites until we figure out how to dispose them. Some day these disposal orbits will be riddled with decommissioned satellites much like how cemeteries can run out of room. Until then we just kick the can down or up a few hundred kilometers.
Cropped from earlier shot with running man right way up.
Optolong L-pro filter, William Optics Redcat 51, ASI183MC Pro at -10C. 15 x 3 minute exposures at Gain 122, 20 dark frames, 20 flat fields, 50 Bias frames.
Sky Watcher Sky Adventurer
Processed in APP and Pixinsight
Orion Nebula is the main body with the running man nebula being seen at the top of the image,
Stack of 10 lights, darks, bias and flats, processed in DSS
Still learning so any advice welcome! Perhaps a bit too red this one?
Taken on a Canon 5D Mark iii and 300mm f4 L is lens
Tracked with Skywatcher star adventurer
Easily visible to the naked eye, the Orion Nebula is a diffuse nebula in the middle of Orion’s sword. The nebula is at the center of a larger stellar cloud that stretches several hundred light years. The De Mairan’s nebula is separated from the Orion Nebula by dark dust lanes; the Running Man nebula is the reflection nebula towards the left in this image. The Orion nebula is of 5th Magnitude and 1,600 light years distant in the constellation of Orion .
Image Profile:
Lee, IL
Type: HaRGB
Frames: HaRGB 11x100:7x60:7x60:7x60
Imaging Date: 20130912
Hardware:
-Main scope: Orion EON 120mm
-Guiding Scope: Astro Tech APO 430mm Short Tube
-CCD: QHY9M with filter wheel with LRGB Ha
-Orion Atlas mount
-Orion Glow Filter
Imaging Applications:
-Acquiring: Nebulosity Ver. 3.0.2
-Guiding: PHD Ver. 1.11.3
Processing Applications:
-CCD Stack
-Photoshop cs3
Comments: Clear skies with good transparency, low humidity and dew point.
The "Running Man" Nebula, or NGC 1975, is an emission nebula located in the Orion constellation. Its English name comes from its appearance, which resembles the silhouette of a running figure. This nebula is part of a larger complex of nebulae in the region, which includes NGC 1973 and NGC 1977.
Its composition is mainly made up of gas and dust, primarily hydrogen, which glows due to radiation from nearby hot stars.
It is also an active region in terms of star formation, with several stars forming from the material of the nebula.
Orion's Sword, the region of sky below Orion's Belt includes the Orion Nebula (M42), Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977), the open cluster NGC 1981, and Iota Orionis.
Voted "Best Deep Sky Photograph" at 2010 RTMC Astronomy Expo.
HDR processing by my nephew Rob Johnson
Suggestion: View on Black, click on bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4035159234&size=large&... then hit F11 key in a darkened room.
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M42 using T1i at iso 3200 on 6" Schmidt Newtonian. Autoguide by Pictor on CGEM mount
HDR processing by Rob , 0306=13s, 0307=78s, 0304=-296s
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Autoguider used: www.flickr.com/photos/edhiker/4017430558/
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m42hdr20091018_Sat74_Q80.jpg
Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45. Herbig-Haro objects are a rarely seen type of nebula that occurs when hot gas ejected by a newborn star collides with the gas and dust around it at hundreds of miles per second, creating bright shock waves. In this image, blue indicates ionized oxygen (O II) and purple shows ionized magnesium (Mg II). Researchers were particularly interested in these elements because they can be used to identify shocks and ionization fronts.
This object is located in the nebula NGC 1977, which itself is part of a complex of three nebulae called The Running Man. NGC 1977 ― like its companions NGC 1975 and NGC 1973 ― is a reflection nebula, which means that it doesn’t emit light on its own, but reflects light from nearby stars, like a streetlight illuminating fog.
Hubble observed this region to look for stellar jets and planet-forming disks around young stars, and examine how their environment affects the evolution of such disks.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Bally (University of Colorado at Boulder); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
captured from grandmesaobservatory.com using the QHY367C Coldmos CMOS One Shot Color Camera and Walter Holloway’s 130mm Takahashi. This new CMOS camera never ceases to amaze me with the depth and detail I am able to get with only 4 minute exposures for RGB and 10 minutes for H-Alpha, my previous imagery of Orion for similar depth using CCD the total exposure times were more than double what I am now able to achieve with the QHY367C, as an avid Monochrome CCD user I used to tell people that a Mono Camera would require roughly a third of the exposure times than that of a One Shot Color CCD camera, that is not the case with this One Shot Color CMOS, if anything it is now the complete reverse.
As always I try to make the end result of the target as natural looking as possible, I hope you like it as much as I do however this is more Art than it is Science and will not please everyone.
For comparisons please refer to my earlier imagery of this region: www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/albums/72157650412048611
Image capture details
Terry Hancock downunderobservatory.com
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Whitewater, Colorado
Dates: October 21, NOV 22 2017
H-Alpha 16 x 10 min, (5nm Chroma Ha)
Total Integration time 5.8 hours
Camera: QHY367C
Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark Frames no Flat.
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL5
Registered, Calibrated and Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop CS6
The Orion Nebula is a prime example of an emission nebula, a cloud of cold gas and dust set aglow by the energetic blue and ultraviolet light of stars that form within the cloud. The hydrogen gas, along with traces of oxygen and other heavier elements, absorb and reradiate the starlight at characteristic colors of red, green, and blue.
The Orion Nebula is set alight by the Trapezium Cluster, so-named because its brightest stars form an irregular four-sided figure which is easily visible even in a small telescope. The Trapezium Cluster contains hundreds of stars which formed just a few hundred thousand years ago. The winds from the Trapezium’s brightest stars have blown a hole in the dusty shroud of the nebula and allowed astronomers to peer into the heart of this giant star-making machine.
Read more about the Orion Nebula in our e-book "The Armchair Astronomer" cosmicpursuits.com/e-books/armchair-astronomer-volume-1-n...
During the winter months our night sky faces outward from the center of our galaxy towards the outer bands. One of the showpieces of the winter night sky is the Constellation Orion. In Orion there are some of the most famous objects in the night sky, beginning with the sword of Orion which contains the Great Orion Nebula M42 and the Running Man Nebula NGC 1977 then moving towards the middle of the constellation in Orion's belt you have the Horsehead Nebula IC 434 and the Flame Nebula NGC 2024.
In wide field shots you begin to see larger structures of nebulosity such as Barnards Loop the red semicircle engulfing the lower portion of the constellation, and then there's the Lambda Orionis Nebula the bright red circle of nebulosity on the top of the constellation which to me represents Orion's head.
Also in this image is the famous Rosette Nebula Caldwell 49 which is the small compact red nebulous blob to the bottom left, and then to the left of the Rosette is the Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster NGC 2264.
Technical info:
20x 300" Light at 1600 ISO
20x Dark
20x Bias
Camera: Canon 6D Baader Filter Mod by Hap Griffin
Lens: Rokinon 35mm at F/4
Mount: Advanced VX
Guide Scope: Orion Mag Mini With ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Capture Software: Backyard EOS
Processing: Photoshop CC
Location: Los Padres National Forest, CA
Original uncropped version of DSLR/CCD Hybrid
www.flickr.com/photos/astrochuck/8132272237/
Since it's been cloudy/raining lately, combined old DSLR data with new CCD subs.The Ha from the DSLR helped with the dust. I will revisit M42 once I get new LRGB & NB CCD filters. The DSLR part of the "hybrid" was very noisy and not nearly as sharp as the CCD subs
QHY9M & Orion ED102CF refractor 10/21/2012 & 10/22/2012
L- 7x600
R-3x600
G-3x600
B-3x600
(5x2 seconds for the core area)
3/22/12
Canon T3 w/Astronomik Ha filter & ST-80T refractor 5x120,10x300,5x600 @iso 1600
6x60 w/crosshairs for diffraction spikes
Images acquired,aligned and stacked with Nebulosity V2.0
Guiding with Orion 50mm mini guider,SSAG and Phd
Combined & post processed with PS6 and StarTools
First attempt at deep sky photography, The Orion nebula with the running man nebula close behind.
M42 Orion Nebula
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Brusubi, Gambia
Class 4 Bortle
Latitude 13 - 24'N
Longitude 16 - 44'N
Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i,
Nikon D500,
Nikon 180mm f2.8
Lights 88 x 30s at F4 and ISO 800
Darks 50 x 30s at F4 and ISO 800
Bias 50 x 1/8000s at F4 and ISO 800
Flats 50 (in aperture priority mode at F4) ISO 800
using the white t-shirt method.
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker
and levels & curves adjusted with Photoshop
DX image cropped on final processing
The Running Man Nebula in Orion:
Image Info:
Shot the night of 10/14/2010 From Southern Utah
Scope : Orion 10" F4.7 OTA
Camera : Canon Rebel XSi, (Self Modified)
Corrector : Baader MPCC
Mount : Orion Atlas EQ-G (EQMOD)
Guiding: PHD guiding
Dithering: Dither Master
Images : 12 lights @420 sec ISO 1600
Darks: 2
Peltier Cooler running camera at ~ 0 deg F.
Software : Subtraction in Iris, Registration in Registar, Stacking in DSS, Post processing in Photoshop
(partial) Flame Nebula on upper left corner. In the middle of the right margin, the blue spot could be a part of the Running Man Nebula. Cámara en modo autofocus montada en tripié. NO SE USÓ TELESCOPIO, NO SE INTERPUSIERON FILTROS, NO SE MODIFICARON LOS COLORES. Zoom óptico 11.84X (331.52 mm equivalente)
M42, the Orion Nebula, probably the most photographed object in the sky!
It is approximately 1,350 light years away and is the closest large area of star formation to us.
Also in the image is De Mairan's Nebula, M43 and the Running Man Nebula, NGC1977.
It is also one of the few deep sky objects that is visible to the naked eye.
This image was made using a William Optics FLT91 telescope paired with an ASI2600MC Pro camera. 2 hours (240 x 30 second) exposures were stacked and processed using Pixinsight. This is a broadband colour image using an Optolong L-Pro filter.
Orion (M42) and Running Man (NGC1977) Nebulas 1/15/22 and 1/21/22
Added some additional exposures to the image I posted last week for just under 5 1/2 hours total.
Also, flipped image 180 degrees.
Great Orion nebula M42 and running man nebula.
5.2h mit Optolong L Enhance filter.
Equipment used: modified Canon EOS 750D with Canon 400mm F5.6L on a iOptron Skyguider with iPolar Alignment.
One of the most iconic celestial objects, the Freat Orion Nebula located just south of the Orion's belt about 1350 light years away from earth. It's one of the brightest nebualae and it is even visible with the naked eye. It was one of my bucket list targets, it is very challenging to capture and process beacuse of how bright it is, to make the core visible i had to do an HDR Composition by merging 5 and 60 seconds exposures of Luminance data. In the bottom of the image is also visible the Running man nebula (NGC1977).
I captured the image in visible light (RGB) so natural colors and was taken from my home terrace in Ragusa, Italy over 3 nights.
Integration:
- L 66x5s
- L 85x60s
- R 79x60s
- G 139x60s
- B 56x60s
Temp: -10C
Bin: 2x2
Gain: 120
Calibration:
- Darks 33
- DarkFlats 33
- Flats 33
Tecnosky SLD80mm (FL: 480mm) Apo Triplet Owl Series
ZWO ASI294MM Pro Cooled Camera
Tecnosky Flattener/Reducer 0.8X
ZWO EWF 7x36
Pegasus Astro Pocket Powerbox Advance
Pegasus Astro FocusCube 2
Antlia LRGB V-series Filter 36mm unmounted
Skywatcher EQ6R-PRO
Shot from my home terrace in Ragusa, Italy (Bortle 6)
Astrobin Full Res Link: www.astrobin.com/mbkhpo/
Optics:
GSO RC 10" F8 2000mm - Astrograph Ritchie-Chrétien
Mount:
AP Mach1 GTO on Gemini Q-Lock tripod
Camera:
QSI 640 WSG
Filters:
Astrodon LRGB I Series Gen II
Guiding Systems:
SXV-AO-LF Active Optics - SX Lodestar
Dates/Times:
11 January 2013
Location:
Castelmagno - Cuneo - Italy
Exposure Details:
L:R:G:B => 150:45:45:45 = > (30x5):(9x5):(9x5):(9x5) color Bin2 [num x minutes]
Cooling Details:
-25°C
Acquisition:
Maxim DL/CCD, Perseus
Processing:
CCDStack2+, PS CS5, PixInsight
Mean FWHM:
4.12"
SQM-L:
21.33
I have captured a single frame here and there through my various telescopes over the years but have never really taken enough to stack and process. I hope you like my first real attempt at this regular target for astrophotographers. Even though only a small amount of data I am pleased with the results from my travel setup.
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. 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. 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 scrutinised 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-ionising effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula. [Information care of Wikipedia]
The Running Man Nebula is a popular target for amateur astrophotographers, as it lies close to the Orion Nebula and has many nearby guide stars. The outline of the running man shows up primarily in photographs; it is difficult to perceive visually through telescopes, though the reflection nebula itself is visible in small to medium apertures in dark skies. It is know as Sharpless Sh2-279 and 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 brightest nebulosity, later listed as NGC 1977, was discovered by William Herschel in 1786. The two smaller reflection nebulae were first noted by German astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, NGC 1973 in 1862 and NGC 1975 in 1864. All three were included in the New General Catalogue in 1888. The designation NGC 1977 is used in various sources for the reflection area around 42 Orionis (the south-east portion of the reflection nebula), for the entire reflection nebula (including NGC 1973 and NGC 1975), or for the whole nebula complex.
This whole region in Orion's Sword was also later catalogued as Orion 1c. In 1966, van den Bergh distinguished the weak clustering of reflection nebulae that includes Sh2-279 as Ori R2. Every reflection nebula appearing within the Sharpless catalogue was first identified on blue plates of the Palomar Sky Survey, and then double checked against the red plates to eliminate possible plate faults. Van den Berg found that there was a strong concentration of new T Tauri stars around the Orion Nebula, tapering off into a tail approaching Sh2-279. [Information care of Wikipedia]
Telescope - Skywatcher 120 ED Esprit with Field Flattener
Gain - 7
Offset - 20
Camera - QHY168C
Guiding - PHD2
Image Capture - EzCap on Mac
Mount - MyT
File - M42 Int Crop BN DBE SCNR SOLVE PhotCal Hist TGV TGV LHE DSE ET Curves TGV Chrome Hist ACDNR Wspace3NR DSE.JPG
Exposure - 31 x 30s & 27 x 60s Total Exp 42 mins
IMT5 Observatory in Hampshire
Date Taken - 12th February 2021
Time Taken - 22:41
141m
All processing in PixInsight
M42 was one of the first astronomical objects I ever tried to photograph. I attached my Nikon D200 to my 5" Meade Achromat, and took a single unguided 30 second frame at ISO 800. I knew nothing about darks and flats and stacking and such, but I was so proud of that image! Little did I realize what a challenge this object is, just because it's so bright.
This nebula is easily visible to the naked eye, even from within the town where I live. It's hanging down (from my northern vantage point) from Orion's belt, and it is one of the star factories nearest us. A multitude of stars are forming or have formed in this cloud of hydrogen. Four of them form an intensely bright cluster right in the middle of the brightest part of the cloud. The power of the radiation from those four stars has carved a cavity in the cloud. The blister of gas and dust around that cavity has "popped" to expose the fluorescing hydrogen inside.
NGC 1977 is another large star forming region near M42, above it in this image. It has been dubbed "The Running Man Nebula" for the shape of the reddish nebulosity at its center. In fact, this is simply an earlier stage of the same process that shaped M42. The dusty reflection nebula surrounding the interior cavity has just started to dissipate under the pressure of the powerful stars within. As a result, we can peek into its interior, glowing red with Hydrogen Alpha emission.
Photographically, M42 is notoriously difficult to capture. The brightest parts of the nebula are thousands of times brighter than the faintest parts. Multiple exposures of different lengths are required to fully capture the detail over the entire area. These exposures are then combined using a technique called High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing. Many HDR images of this beautiful nebula look pasty and flat. They lack the depth... the glow... that make them truly captivating. I've tried to avoid that with this image, sacrificing some detail contrast for the 'feel' of the brightness difference between the inner, outer, and extended envelope nebulosity.
One of the biggest challenges in the creation of this image involved the geosynchronous satellite band, which runs right through that region of sky. Dozens of satellite trails were present in the combined image, requiring a couple of hours of manual work to remove. Virtually every subframe had at least one satellite streak in it, and a lot of them had several. It's amazing how many geosynchronous satellites are up there.
This 38 megapixel image is my very first attempt at an HDR rendition. I combined exposures of 30 and 240 seconds from the Takahashi CCA250/Apogee Aspen 16M, 10 and 60 seconds from the Planewave CDK17/Apogee Alta 16M, and 10 seconds from the Planewave CDK20/SBIG STT8300M. The 441 subframes combined to create this image required 9.6 hours of imaging over 6 nights from November 7, 2013, to January 23, 2014.
The distance to the Orion Nebula has recently been geometrically determined to be 1,425±61 light years. At that distance, this image is about 58 light years across.
Image acquired at Prairie Sky Observatory and Sugar Grove Observatory, facilities of Twin City Amateur Astronomers (tcaa.us).
Taken - after a recording time of 32 minutes - with my new digital telescope “ZWO Seestar S50 Smart Telescope”.
The Orion Nebula or Great Orion Nebula (also known as Messier-42, M42 or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebubula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion, and is knoes as the middle "star" in the "sword" of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye as a bright spot in the night sky.
De Mairan's Nebula (Messier-43, M43 or NGC 1982 is physically part of the Orion Nebula and looks like a sphere, and is separated from Orion Nebula by a dense (black) lane of dust known as Northeast Dark Lane.
At the top left you can already see the Running Man or Ghost Nebula (Sh2-279, S279 or NGC 1977) - still quite dark.
The photo consists of many individual images, each exposed for 10 seconds over a period of 32 minutes and automatically stacked by the Smart Telescope. This suppresses image noise and reveals more details - the longer the recording time, the clearer the result.
I then edited the resulting photo with Luminar Neo and jpg-Illuminator.
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Aufgenommen nach einer Aufnahmezeit von 32 Minuten mit meinem neuen Digitalteleskop “ZWO Seestar S50 Smart Teleskop”.
Der Orionnebel oder Große Orionnebel (auch bekannt als Messier-42, M42 oder NGC 1976) ist ein diffuser Nebel in der Milchstraße, der sich südlich (unterhalb) des Oriongürtels im Sternbild Orion befindet und als mittlerer „Stern“ im „Schwert“ des Orion bekannt ist. Er ist einer der hellsten Nebel und am Nachthimmel mit bloßem Auge als heller Fleck sichtbar.
De Mairans Nebel (Messier-43, M43 oder NGC 1982) ist physikalisch Teil des Orionnebels und sieht aus wie eine Kugel. Er ist vom Orionnebel durch eine dichte (schwarze) Staubspur getrennt, die als "Northeast Dark Lane" bezeichnet wird.
Oben links kann man bereits - noch recht dunkel - den "Running Man" oder Geisternebel (Sh2-279, S279 oder NGC 1977) erkennen.
Das Foto besteht aus vielen Einzelbildern, die während eines Zeitraums von 32 Minuten jeweils 10 Sekunden belichtet und durch das Smart Telekop automatisch "gestackt" (gestapelt) wurden. Dadurch wird das Bildrauschen unterdrückt und es werden mehr Details sichtbar - je länger die Aufnahmezeit, desto klarer also das Ergebnis. Danach habe ich das so entstandene Foto mit Luminar Neo und jpg-Illuminator nachbearbeitet.
www.focustoinfinity.de/blog/Astrofotografie: Was ist eigentlich Stacking?
www.astroshop.de/magazin/produkttests/teleskop-tests/smar...
05-01-2019
OTA: SR 60mm ED APO Doublet, f/6.0, 360mmL
Imaging: ASI183MM Pro, w/QHY5LII-M on MiniGuideScope
Mount: Sky Adventurer
Filters: Optolong Ha (7nm), Oiii (6,5nm), Siii (6.5mm)
Sequencing & Aiding Tools: PHD2, APT
Integration (Lights): 30s x 10 (L), 30s x 15 (Ha), 30s x 15 (Oiii), 30s x 3 (Siii)
Calibrations: 15 Darks, 15 Biases. Flats 0
PP: Pixinsight, GIMP 2.0
The first shot taken for 2019, a great nebula in Orion revisited, taken after a brief respite from clouds and local storm systems.
First light for the ASI183MM. This is a test image to ensure all running systems and processes are integrated proper prior to streamlining. Goofed on Siii data due to PHD2 guiding failure but it turned out well enough.
Subs were taken at approximately 15 degrees before its zenith, in a class 8 bortle city sky. 2-3 stars from the M45 cluster was visible via naked eye at that time.
Technical notes:
The ASI183MM has an equivalent crop factor of 2.7, which translates into the current image taken at 972mmL. If I'm wrong on this please correct me.
Guiding on the SA, with PHD2 assistance was at an est. 50-100RMS, resulting in minor star trails for a 30s exposure.
The single axis guiding posed the biggest challenge for excellent PA.
Amp-glow for the 183MM sensor is quite pravelent, at the lower right side of this image. Doubling down on calibration frames should be enough to correct during post processing.
Canon 1D Mark3 on Takahashi E-160 Astrograph (530mm, F3.3) / EM-200 Temma2 No-touch Guide / ISO 1600 / 180s x 1 + 300s x 2 + 360s x 4 frames
La nébuleuse d'Orion et le Running Man en plan serré (1000mm)
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Gear - Matériel 🔭
Mount : Skywatcher EQ6-R
Scope : Skywatcher 200/1000 BD
Guiding : ZWO ASI290MM Mini on ZWO OAG
Imaging camera : ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Filters : Optolong L-extreme
Corrector : TS GPU
Picture - Prise de vue 📷
Total integration : 3h00
Light : 36 x 300s
Dark : 30
Flat : 20
Gain : 90
Sensor temp : -5°C
Software - Logiciels
Imaging session : Nina
Guiding : PHD2
Stacking : PixInsight
Processing : PixInsight, Photoshop