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Orion is now appearing in the early morning sky and I can remember that just a few weeks ago it was too low in the sky to be photographed (was actually blocked from view by a bush on my eastern horizon).
Photographed on the morning of August 20, 2012 from a moderately dark-sky location using a 5 inch aperture, f/4.2 telescope and a Sony NEX-5N digital camera (ISO800, a stack of eighty-eight images each exposed for 30 seconds, producing a total exposure integration time of 44 minutes). Tracking for each of the 30 second exposures was performed by a Celestron CGEM mount (no manual or auto guiding, standard sidereal rate after one star polar align).
Image registration, integration, and adjustments done with PixInsight v01.07.06.0793 with final tweaks in Photoshop CS5.
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Another try at capturing M42 Orion Nebula with NGC1977 the Running Man Nebula. This is an integration of 70x30sec exposures at ISO1600 through a Celestron 130EQ Astromaster riding on top of a SkyWatcher StarAdventurer with a unmodded Canon T5. Not the most ideal setup since the scope is overly heavy for the mount but still ended up with a half decent shot.
My photo of the Orion Nebula was was selected as an Editor's Pick and featured on the Sky & Telescope homepage in the month of December 2015.
www.skyandtelescope.com/online-gallery/the-orion-nebula-a...
Grande nébuleuse d'Orion (M42) Orion nebula
Nébuleuse de l'homme qui court (NGC 1975 et NGC 1977) Running Man nebula
Nikon D5100
William Optics ZenithStar 73
150x30 sec + DOF
F/5,9 -- Iso 200
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Traitement: DeepSkyStacker + Gimp (traitement draft)
AstroM1
(r.1.1.2-t2)
A jet from a newly formed star flares into the shining depths of reflection nebula NGC 1977 in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The jet (the orange object at the bottom center of the image) is being emitted by the young star Parengo 2042, which is embedded in a disk of debris that could give rise to planets. The star powers a pulsing jet of plasma that stretches over two light-years through space, bending to the north in this image. The gas of the jet has been ionized until it glows by the radiation of a nearby star, 42 Orionis. This makes it particularly useful to researchers because its outflow remains visible under the ionizing radiation of nearby stars. Typically the outflow of jets like this would only be visible as it collided with surrounding material, creating bright shock waves that vanish as they cool.
In this image, red and orange colors indicate the jet and glowing gas of related shocks. The glowing blue ripples that seem to be flowing away from the jet to the right of the image are bow shocks facing the star 42 Orionis (not shown). Bow shocks happen in space when streams of gas collide, and are named after the crescent-shaped waves made by a ship as it moves through water.
The bright western lobe of the jet is cocooned in a series of orange arcs that diminish in size with increasing distance from the star, forming a cone or spindle shape. These arcs may trace the ionized outer rim of a disk of debris around the star with a radius of 500 times the distance between the Sun and Earth and a sizable (170 astronomical units) hole in the center of the disk. The spindle-like shape may trace the surface of an outflow of material away from the disk and is estimated to be losing the mass of approximately a hundred-million Suns every year.
NGC 1977 is part of a trio of reflection nebulae that make up the Running Man Nebula in the constellation Orion.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Bally (University of Colorado at Boulder); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
This is a reprocess of an image I took in 2011 through a 12" f/3.9 reflector telescope. It's a stack of 14 6-minute images (84 minutes total exposure) taken with a modified Canon EOS 350D at ISO 800. Not sure I see a "running man" -- well sort of -- but I do like the bright, colorful nebulosity nonetheless.
This reflection nebula lies just a stone's throw from the spectacular Orion nebula (M42, M43) in the constellation Orion.
Subject: M42, M43, NGC1977 -- Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula
Image FOV: 2 Degrees square (120 arc-minutes square)
Scale: 9 arc-seconds per pixel
Date: 2005/09/30 - 2005/12/04
Exposure: 212 x 2min at ISO 400 f/2.8 (300mm) + 45 x 15sec f/5.6 (800mm) f/5.6 Total exposure = 7h15m15s, ISO 400
Filter: IDAS LPS
Lens: Nikon 300mm f/2.8 AIS lens and Nikon 800mm f/5.6 AIS
Camera: Canon 20D (unmodified)
Mount: Single-arm motorized barndoor tracker, unguided
Processing: Subexposures were registered and combined using Registar. Dark frames were used for each night, but no flat frames or bias frames were taken.
Remarks: Subexposures were taken on 8 different nights between 2005/09/30 and 2005/12/04 under various sky conditions. The short 800mm shots were taken with a bright moon out. The main post-processing involved combining the 800mm image of the bright center and the 300mm image of the rest. The 800mm image was aligned (and reduced) to match the 300mm image, and then the two were combined using layers and masks in Photoshop. Photoshop curves/levels adjustment was done, along with cropping, resizing, and JPEG conversion.
Nikon D600 shot of the Great Orion Nebula and the Running Man nebula.
Taken when on holiday in the Lot valley, France.
300mm lens with 1.7 converter, 3200 iso and approx 4mins of exposure time. Cropped.
Everything mounted on an astrotrac.
The Orion Nebula, M42 and M43, with surrounding associated nebula and star clusters, such as the Running Man Nebula above (NGC 1975) and blue star cluster above it, NGC 1981.
This is one of the most often photographed but most challenging dee-sky objects to shoot, because of its huge range in brightess from the bright core to the outlying wisps of dim red nebulosity. Capturing it all in one frame requires a form of âhigh-dynamic-rangeâ techniques: shooting several different exposures and manually stacking and masking them in Photoshop.
I shot and processed this image for use as a demonstration and tutorial image for my Photoshop for Astronomy Workshops. This demonstrates the methods and result of masking several different exposures to retain details in the bright core while also bringing out the faintest outlying bits of nebulosity, compressing the dynamic range tremendously.
All processing was done with Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop CC 2014. Total processing time from Raw to final was about 3 hours.
The image is made of:
- 10 x 6 minute exposures, Median combined in a registered stack, at ISO 1250. The median stacking reduced, but did not completely eliminate, the satellite trails from geosatatonary satellites that were in almost every frame.
- 5 x 1.5 minute exposures at ISO 1250 for the mid-level brightness areas, blended using Darken mode
- 5 x 30 second exposures at ISO 800 for the bright core, blended using Darken mode
- 5 x 30 second exposures at ISO 400 for the brightest part of the central core around the Trapezium stars, blended using Darken mode
Shorter exposure layers were stacked and masked using a luminance mask: created by Command Clicking on the RGB Channel to select just the highlights of that exposure then using that selection to create a mask to reveal the core area and hide the rest.
Additional top-level layers were added for enhancing detail overall:
- Luminosity layer created from the Red channel, and blended using Luninosity blend mode
- Sharpening layer created from a âstampedâ merge of all layers and with a High Pass filter applied, and blended using Overlay blend mode.
All adjustments and filters were applied through adjustment latyers and smart filters so every aspect of the image could be re-tweaked at will later. Masks were blurred using Feathering in the Mask Properties panel. No destructive filtering to images or masks was employed.
As a final step, some residual vertical banding and noise was smoothed out with an application of Nik Collection DFine noise reduction.
Diffraction spikes added to stars using Noel Carboniâs Astronomy Tools actions.
All frames were taken with a filter-modified Canon 5D MkII and through a TMB 92mm apo refractor at f/5.5 with a Hotech field flattener.
Taken from Silver City, New Mexico, January 22, 2015.
Another version of the Great Orion Nebula - with better colour balancing (thanks to Sara for the tip).
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, or M42) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Sword of Orion. Located approximately 1,300 light years from Earth, it is estimated to be 24 light years across and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The Running Man Nebula (also known as NGC 1973/5/7) is a reflection nebula 1/2 degree northeast of the Orion Nebula. This image was captured using a QHY8L camera, attached to a Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro. The image consists of 10 x 300s, 10 x 200s and 25 x 45s exposures, stacked and processed using Nebulosity 3 and Photoshop CS6.
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.
ED80 480mm * 0.8x (f/4.8), 27 x 30 s, ISO6400, Canon T3i.
Hugin (alignment) + ImageMagick (stacking) + GIMP (levels), Debian GNU/Linux.
Lugar / place / lieu : Guárico, Venezuela.
Nikon D7000 on an iOptron SkyTracker
Nikon DX 55-300 @ 300mm, f/5.6
42 x 30 sec exposures, ISO @ 800
Shot from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Last night was really clear here in southern California, so I went out to photograph the Orion Nebula. This is the result. I took some images with and without my 1.4x teleconverter, but I liked the ones without the teleconverter at just 400mm better as a whole stop more of light is recorded without the teleconverter.
This was taken in some bad light pollution, but still better than in Vancouver. You can even see light from the Running Man Nebula above the Orion Nebula in this image.
This is a single image but I took 80+ that I will stack for a much better result, Still, I am very happy with this!
Canon 7D Mark II | Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM | 1 second | ISO 16000 | f/5.6
NGC-1977 Running Man Nebula. 20mins stacked images taken on Slooh 0.5m telescope at Tenerife over several weeks.
HDR composite of NGC 1977 (Running Man Nebula), M43, and M42 (Orion Nebula). Click on image for a magnified view.
Instrument: 130mm f/6 Astro-Physics StarFire EDFS refractor operated at f/6.8 with field flattener
Exposure: 7 x 8 seconds, 7 x 30 seconds, 7 x 120 seconds, and 4 x 482 seconds @ ISO 800 and 44°F
Camera: Canon EOS 20Da DSLR
Location: B. Everett Jordan Lake, North Carolina, USA
Only 50.6 minutes of integration, so results are pretty noisy even for these bright objects.
Lightroom used to apply white balance, a simple gamma 2.2 stretch, and color noise reduction to the raw files before outputting them as double-sized (4672x7008 pixels) tiff files. All tiff images aligned in ImagesPlus 6.5, subsets combined with Min Max Excluded Average, results combined with Adaptive HDR Add, then stretched with DDP Stretch. Photoshop used to assign color space, crop, mitigate horizontal banding, and set black point. Lightroom used for final adjustments.
The Great Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, or M42) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Sword of Orion. Located approximately 1,300 light years from Earth, it is estimated to be 24 light years across and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The Running Man Nebula (also known as NGC 1973/5/7) is a reflection nebula 1/2 degree northeast of the Orion Nebula. This image was captured using a QHY8L camera, attached to a Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro. The image consists of 10 x 300s, 10 x 200s and 25 x 45s exposures, stacked and processed using Nebulosity 3 and Photoshop CS6.
Its been a long time waiting to photograph this magnificent nebula. I have only photographed it before with a stationary tripod and camera, and a maximum zoom of 300mm. My results were satisfying for me at the time but i new I could do better with more equipment. I didn't travel to my usual dark country sky last night but instead I set up in my back yard, right in the middle of light pollution central. I've see other images of M42 taken within the city limits so I was quite optimistic about how things would turn out but I didn't think it would be able to capture the faint running man nebula as well.
The Orion nebula or M42, is a bright 4th magnitude object and can be seen with the naked eye even in light polluted areas. It is seen as the middle "star" in the sword of Orion,
which are the three stars located south of Orion's Belt. The star appears fuzzy to sharp-eyed observers, and the nebulosity is obvious through binoculars or a small telescope.
M42 is an emission and reflection nebula and is about 25light years across. The Orion Nebula is an example of a stellar nursery where new stars are being born.
The Nebula is part of a much larger nebula that is known as the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. M42 is the nearest nebula to us (1350 light years) away and because of its brightness
it was the first nebula to be photographed back in 1882. It is currently the most photographed object in the night sky and also is among the most intensely studied.
Sky-Watcher Black Diamond ED80, 600 mm refactor. 0.85x Focal Reducer/Corrector
HEQ5 Pro German Equatorial GoTo Mount
Nikon D300
About 40 minuets worth of exposures at 90sec each.
ISO 800
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
PP, Adobe photoshop lightroom 4
To eliminate the saturated core I blended the different exposures using layers in Photoshop. I am hoping to get more time to reveal more dust.
Image Taken: 7 Feb 13
Object: M42 Orion Nebula and NGC 1977 Running Man Nebula
Mount: AP Mach 1
Imaging scope: Equinox 80
Imaging FL: 500mm
Imaging camera: Hypercam modded Canon T1i
Lights: 6 x 10 min, 15 x 45 sec, 20 x 10 sec
Calibration: 25 Flats
Guide scope: QWIK Autoguider
Other details: guided with PHD, captured using BackyardEOS, stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop
M 42 (Orion Nebula) and Sh2-279 (Running Man Nebula).
270 x 30s Subs, 60 x Darks, 40 x Flats/Bias.
ZWO 294MC Pro with Optolong L-Enhance filter.
AA115 APO, EQ6 R.
APT, PHD, Nebulosity, Photoshop
This would be a rather ordinary photo of Orion's belt except for the unidentified object that appears in the left-center quarter of the frame (near to the Flame Nebula and Zeta Orionis/Alnitak). That green streak isn't an airplane and I'm pretty certain that it isn't a simple digital artifact (cosmic ray striking the camera sensor?). The only other possibilities I can think of are either a meteor or a flare from an earth orbiting satellite. My guess would be that it is a meteor with the green color being caused by the nickel-metal content in the meteor itself (apparently that is the color you get with meteors that have a high nickel content).
[UPDATE] Yes, this is a meteor. In fact, it is a member of the Orionid Meteor Shower that peaked on Oct 21/22 of this year. If you trace the path back up toward the top of the frame then you will eventually arrive at the so-called radiant point of the Orionids. Also, the Orionid meteors are known for their green color. The Orionids are associated with Halley's Comet, so you're seeing a piece of this famous comet being vaporized in our atmosphere. [/UPDATE]
The green tint of this object was vividly apparent in the raw, unprocessed image, but I have no way of knowing whether the color was completely natural or whether it was caused by the capture technique or some other unknown factor.
The meteor is best seen in the Flickr light box (press the "L" key to toggle the light box, or better yet click on the "View all sizes" menu item to see the image at its largest size).
This two-minute-long, single-frame exposure also recorded the Flame Nebula, a faint outline of the Horsehead Nebula, the reflection nebula M78, and the Running Man Nebula (bottom edge center).
Captured on October 22, 2011 at 2:01AM PDT from a moderately dark-sky location using a Nikon D5100 DSLR (ISO 3200, 2 minute exposure) and an AF Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8D lens set to aperture f/2.8. Tracking provided by a hand-driven, barn-door type mount (two boards, a hinge, and a screw you turn by hand).
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The full frame picture, a HDR capture by Rob Johnson
This photo was the winner for Deep Sky Imaging in a contest at the annual RTMC Astronomy Expo, 2007.
NGC 1977 "Running Man Nebula" is on the left.
Close up crop is at flickr.com/photos/edhiker/305082569/in/photostream/
Robs_New_m42hdr20061119_SG_full
My updated image of this Deep Space scene with twice the exposure time (3.5 hours, half with a Hoya Starscape LP filter).
Canon 600D (not modified), Canon ef 75-300mm, Vixen Polarie mount, Hahnel tripod. 21 Light frames and 12 dark frames used.
During this lockdown, there have been a fair few clear nights though not all moonless. We did have however have some around the February New moon. I took advantage of this and thought I would revisit shooting Orion from the garden.
No tracker, just a standard DSLR and tripod. 200mm lens at F2.8 and intervalometer.
200 light frames, 20 darks and 20 bias.
Here you can see the Orian Nebula (bottom), Running man nebula (just above). Near the top left is the Horse head nebula (quite faint) and just above that the flame nebula.
All of this is around 1350 light years from Earth.
Orion's Belt or The Belt of Orion is an asterism within the constellation. It consists of the three bright stars Zeta (Alnitak), Epsilon (Alnilam), and Delta (Mintaka).
Orion's Sword contains the Orion Nebula, the Messier 43 nebula, the Running Man Nebula, and the stars Theta Orionis, Iota Orionis, and 42 Orionis.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion%27s_Belt
Camera: Sony A7 with MC Rokkor-PF 1:17 55mm lens
Settings: F/1.7, ISO 800, 5 Sec exposure
Image source: 40 subs, stacked with Sequator & cropped
Date: 11/17/2020
Location: St. Charles, IL
Orion Nebula (M42) and The running man nebula from dark skies of Sindh, Pakistan captured using Canon 650D on iOptron SKyTracker.
A wide-field photograph of the Great Orion Nebula (M42) taken with a 50mm Nikkor AF-D lens and a Nikon D5100 DSLR. Please refer to the image notes for the locations of the Great Orion Nebula (M42), its small companion M43, and the Running Man Nebula (NGC 1973/5/7). This image is best viewed in the Flickr light box (press the "L" key to toggle the light box and optionally click on the "View all sizes" menu item to see the image at its largest size).
This is a stack of 115 images that were exposed from between 4 and 25 seconds each using a hand-driven, barn-door type tracking mount (two boards, a hinge, and a screw you turn by hand).
Captured on October 31, 2011between the hours of 3:09AM and 3:58AM PDT from a significantly light-polluted, near-center-city location using a Nikon D5100 DSLR (ISO 1600, 18 minutes total exposure integration time) and an AF Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8D lens set to aperture f/2.8. Image stack created with DeepSkyStacker with final adjustments done in Photoshop CS3.
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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 from my light-polluted front driveway using a two-inch aperture "guide" scope (Stellarvue SV50ED) and a Sony NEX-5N digital camera (ISO 800, 60 seconds x 83, prime focus with AT2FF field flattener, 330mm focal length, f/6.6).
An interesting note, on the far right side of this photo astrometry.net has identified the very small reflection nebula NGC 1999 that is noted for containing a region of completely empty space that forms a visual hole just slightly offset from the center of the nebula. Surprisingly, that feature (the hole) seems to be visible in this photo.
This image is best viewed at full size and/or against a dark background (press the "L" key to enter the Flickr light box).
The setup for this picture included the use of a light-pollution filter and it thus proved somewhat difficult to process given the filter's colorcast and the rather significant light pollution that I have in my home town. To see what can be done in much less time from a relatively dark location using a larger and "better" telescope (5 inch aperture, f/4.2) you should view my previous image entitled "The Great Orion Nebula (M42/M43) and the Running Man Nebula (NGC 1973/5/7)" (LINK).
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).
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Reprocessed an older series of Orion Nebula photos with stacking software.
The originals came from 11-2018. The stacking program brought out Running Man Nebula.
Sequator is the stacking software.
Also, I need to tighten up the focus. 300mm is not easy to focus.
On a Star Adventurer tracking mount.
The Great Nebula in Orion (M42) and the Running Man nebula (NGC1977) can be found in his sword.
William Optics Zenithstar 61 with dedicated field flattener (f61)
iOPtron Skyguider Pro tracking mount
Nikon d5500
Explore Scientific CLS filter
107 x 75 second subs at ISO1600 ( 2hr14mins)
23 x Darks
25 x Flats
45 x Bias
Stacked in DSS and processed in photoshop CC
The Great Orion Nebula (M42) and its companion, the Running Man Nebula (NGC1977), are located in the 'Sword' part of the constellation of Orion, just below the easternmost of the three stars that comprise Orion's belt. Approximately 1500 light years away, M42 is a turbulent cloud of gas and dust, and a star-forming region of particular interest to astro-geeks like me. A number of hot young stars (mmm...hot young stars...) fuel the dense swathes of surrounding gas, causing it to ionize and produce its glow.
A rather quick and dirty Orion and Running Man nebulas image taken on Monday the 23rd of January, this image uses Pixinsight's HDR composition tool to combine images of different exposures lengths to bring out detail in areas that would otherwise be over exposed.
Williams Optics ZS66SD
Canon 1000D (modified)
25x60 seconds
25x120 seconds
I will try and capture some 240 second exposures if we get another clear night to help bring out more contrast and detail.
Version C - Same stack as version A, but stretched to show all the faint hidden detail captured in the outer parts of the nebula with no regard for the brightness of the background sky or for overexposing the core of the nebula. The full shape of the Running Man Nebula is visible in the top left. I didn't make any effort to balance the colours in this one.
50x 30 second exposures were stacked and stretched with PixInsight 1.6, using a Skywatcher 190mm Maksutov Newtonian on an LXD75 mount. Shot with a Canon T1i at prime focus at ISO800.
I used no calibration frames (darks or flats), instead let PI's hot pixel remover work during stacking and reduced the sky glow and vignetting using the Dynamic Background Extractor tool in PI.
Image was sharpened mildly and rescaled to 90% to reduce the file size, and saved to PNG format using The Gimp.
I shot 80x 30 second exposures, dropped the exposures where the stars were not quite round.
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20150325 - An artist at Deviantart used this image in this cool space composition:
M42 es una de las nebulosas más brillantes en el cielo, visible a simple vista como una mancha borrosa que rodea Theta Orionis, la estrella media en la Espada de Orion, justo al sur del Cinturón de Orion, a una distancia de 1350 años luz de la Tierra
Anteriormente ya había captado está impresionante Nebulosa, tan especial para mí al ser la primera que logré fotografiar, por lo que, ya contando con un poco más de conocimiento y experiencia decidí volver a visitarla y ver si conseguía mayor detalle.
Han sido largas noches para obtener este tipo de imágenes, dependiendo totalmente de las condiciones climáticas, esperando que sean noches despejadas, sin viento, sin humedad, sin Luna, condiciones muy difíciles a veces de conseguir, pero a pesar de eso he aprendido bastante los últimos meses, desde una mejor forma de ubicar estos objetos hasta mejorar el proceso de captura y el proceso de edición, y al final el resultado de esta segunda visita a está majestuosa nebulosa es impresionante, realmente todo ese tiempo invertido ha valido la pena, pronto volveré una tercera vez y veremos qué podré conseguir en esa ocasión
Ok, so not the best looking image of the Orion Complex but is a good one to show what processing can do. This is a first try with the technique i recently learnt / came across a tutorial on processing orion nebula by Ian Norman from Lonely Speck (www.lonelyspeck.com/) and was amazed to see what could be done.
I went out last night with Jonathan and unfortunately i forgot my iOptron Ballhead, so could not attach it to my ZEQ25, so had to borrow jonathan's iOptron skytracker. I shot around 1min x 30 images, of which i used only 26. These shots were taken from Warkworth.
The following image shows the Barnard's loop, Flame Nebula, Horsehead Nebulae, Witch's Nebula, Witch Head Nebula, The Orion and Running man nebula. The images also shows the illumination caused by the supergiant star "Rigel" which is also the source of illumination for Witch head nebula.
The orion complex is between 1,500 and 1,600 light-years away and is hundreds of light-years across. t is also one of the most active regions of stellar formation that can be seen in the night sky, and is home to both protoplanetary discs and very young stars. The nebula is also very bright in the infrared wavelengths due to the heat-intensive processes involved in the stellar formation, although the complex contains dark nebulae, emission nebulae, reflection nebulae, and HII regions.
The following image was median stacked and processed in Photoshop. Total exposure is 1min x 26 = 26 min.
Exif: 60sec, ISO 1600, f2.8, 50mm using Canon 50mm on Canon 6D
My second attempt at shooting M42 on a rare night of clear sky in Singapore. Taken at Changi Beach - a place located at the eastern end of Singapore main island. Night sky there is definitely darker compared to where I first attempted M42 (which was in the central part of severe light polluted Singapore).
But the imaging session was short lived as the lens fogged up after 40 plus shots. What a waste! Guess I have to bring some heat packs along if I am going to this location next time.
Though the image is noisy, I am quite satisfied with the end results of the stacked image. The running man nebula is visible in the photo as well. Waiting for the next clear night to collect more subs to add on to this group of subs.
Details:
Pentax K-30 with DAL55-300mm lens
Pentax O-GPS1 Astrotracer
iso3200, f/5.8, 300mm
40x10s light frames & 25 dark frames
Stacked using DSS