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This is my image taken of the Constellation of Orion and the Barnards loop. In this image you can see M42 Orion Nebula, M43 Running Man Nebula, IC434 HorseHead Nebula and the Flame Nebula M78 Diffuse Nebula and the surrounding nebulosity of the Barnards loop.
This image was taken 23/11/14 at Galloway Star Party using Canon 60Da with 35x3min exposure's total integration 1hr 45mins on the Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Mount
M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 light years. NGC 1973/5/7 or Running Man Nebula is a reflection nebula 1/2 degree northeast of the Orion Nebula.
My first time catching the Running Man Nebula.
Canon 450d full spectrum
iso 800 LPS2 Filter
deepsky stacker
c-11 cgem-dx
f/2 hyperstar
15 x 60sec
6 bias
6 darks
6 flats
Messier 42 The Great Nebula in Orion.
Third try at this DSO in the middle of light-polluted Singapore. Clear weather. No lens fogging problems unlike the first two attempts. Only problem was satellite signals keep disconnecting at this location. Only few subs were collected as a result. Despite so, the resultant stacked photo definitely looks better than previous tries. Running Man Nebula is vaguely visible on the right.
Details:
Pentax K-30 with DAL55-300mm lens
Pentax O-GPS1 Astrotracer
shot at 300mm, cropped
10x20s, iso1600
8x10s, iso3200
10 dark frames
Stacked using DSS
M42, M43 and NGC1977 - The Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula in LRGB. Haven't imaged in a while and time was short, so this object was perfect. Subexposures only 1 minute to not overexpose the core of M42. I'm pleasantly surprised the result turned out so well with only 1 minute subs. I'm sure I'll revisit this with deeper shots to blend with...
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.
LRGB:
L: 15x1min (1x1)
RGB: 5x1min (2x2) each
My latest effort, using multiple exposures at ISO 400: 13, 30, 60 & 120 secs combined to try to preserve detail in the core.
Pentax K3II + Pentax DA*300mm + x1.4 converter on Skywatcher EQ3/2 tracking mount
My earlier photo of 11 Minutes of 10 seconds exposures, captured with my Seestar S50 and processed in PixInsight
Taken in my garden in Huddersfield, UK
Some of the most studied and photographed areas of the night sky are located in the constellation of Orion. The Great Orion Nebula is undoubtedly the most famous. It is also an HII region which makes it the closest region of star formation to our planet. It is comprised mainly of ionized hydrogen which gives off the red glow readily visible in images of this region. The energy that keeps this nebula glowing comes from hot young stars in the area called the Trapezium which is the brightest part in the “center” of the nebula on the right. The nebula to the left is commonly referred to as the Running Man Nebula. It is officially referred to as NGC 1973/1975/1977.
The Orion Nebula (M42/M43) lies approximately 1500 light years from earth.
Telescope: AT65EDQ
Focal ratio: f/6.5 (420mm)
Camera: modified Canon 500D
Exposure info: 19 x 150s, 67 x 180s, 112 x 210s @ ISO 800. Total exposure time 10h 40m. Dark, flats and bias frames also added. Note: 15 and 30 second exposures were taken for the core of the trapezium.
Date(s) taken: Jan 6, 9 & 14, 2013
Object Details: The Running Man Nebula (aka Sharpless 279, NGC 1973, 1975 & 1977) is a reflection nebula, open star cluster & emission nebula located at the top of the 'sword' asterism in the constellation of Orion the Hunter. The name arises from the brighter portions outlining darker areas, presenting the appearance of a human figure in a running state.
The Orion nebula (Messier 42 & 43) is one of the brightest nebula complexes in our sky and is actually fairly easily visible to the naked eye in a moderately dark sky. Lying approximately 1300 light-years from Earth, the nebula spans about 25 light-years in diameter. It is the largest massive star-forming region to us and contains nearly 2000 times the mass of the Sun.
Image Details: Like the previously posted images of the Horsehead Nebula (linked here: www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/45864477355/) , the attached is also a composite of two images taken simultaneously using twin (unmodded) Canon 700D (t5i) DSLRs with (left) a more modern Orion 80mm f/6 apochromatic refractor with a 0.8x Televue field flattener / focal reducer piggybacked on (right) an old (vintage 1970) 8-inch, f/7 Criterion newtonian reflector with a coma corrector. These scopes were tracked on a Losmandy G-11 mount runing a Gemini 2 control system, and guided using an ASI290MC auto-guider / planetary camera in a Clestron 80mm f/6 'short-tube'. As with the Horsehead, these images were taken while waiting for a comet to rise early one evening in December & were intended to be used for determing this area's applicability to simultaneous imaging using difffering focal lengths. Being simple framing tests, the are a small stack of non-selected subs consisting of only 20 minutes of exposure each that were processed fairly quickly and taken using a fixed ISO and sub-exposure time (and thus resulted in a high degree of core burn-out as well as a higher level of noise than we would normally achieve). As we revisit this area in the future I hope to not only make additional time for process the results, but also acquire deeper exposures to increase the signal-to-noise ratio while utilizing an HDR approach to simultaneously provide detail in both the core as well as the outer regions. As presented here, both images were processed using a combination of PixInsight, Photoshop & Paint Sop Pro and are nearly 'full-frame', having only been cropped slightly. The entire composite has been resized down to HD resolution and the bit depth lowered to 8 bits per channel. A similar composite of the Pleiades taken while testing a new remote connection to our obs. can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/40317389883/
De grote Orion nevel is te vinden in het sterrenbeeld Orion
Deze nevel bestaat uit actieve stervorming en gaswolken.
Fotografisch:
Opname bestaat uit 90 samengevoegde foto's met sluitertijd van 1 en 3 minuten.
Visueel is deze nevel een tweetal maal de diameter van de volle maan.
Het heldere deel is tijdens de wintermaanden met het blote oog te zien
20x 15s, 20x 30s and 20x 60s, bias and dark frames... heavily cropped. Longer exposures were unusable due to some sort of IR leak on the fully extended RF 70-200mm f/2.8L ... who knew?
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker.
A section of the southern half of the constellation Orion showing the stars Rigel, Alnitak, and Alnilam with the nebulas M42 (Great Orion Nebula), M43, NGC 1973/5/7 (Running Man Nebula), NGC 2023, and NGC 2024 (Flame Nebula). The Flame Nebula appears to the left of the star Alnitak which is the easternmost of the three belt stars in Orion while the star Alnilam marks the center of the belt. The Horsehead Nebula is also very faintly visible just below the star Alnitak.
Along the right edge of the picture are inserts showing closer views of the Flame Nebula and the Great Orion Nebula (these are enlarged clips from the wide-field image that forms the larger background to this photo composition).
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Rigel to Alnitak, View On Black
Rigel to Alnitak, View At Full Size
Photographed on February 9, 2012 between the hours 7:44PM and 8:10PM PST using a Nikon D5100 DSLR (ISO 400, 90 seconds exposure x 14, 105mm 1:2.5 Nikon Ai lens at f/4). Image registration, integration, and adjustments done with PixInsight v01.07.04.0759 (trial) with final composition done in Photoshop CS5.
Camera tracking/guiding was done entirely by using a hand-driven, barn-door type mount (two boards, a hinge, and a screw you turn by hand).
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There are four nebulas in this image starting with the Flame Nebula at the top, then the Horsehead Nebula, so called because there is a silhouette of a so called horse's head, then the Running Man Nebula and finally the Orion Nebula. These heavenly bodies are found in Orion's Belt. There is also a lot of intersteller dust that surrounds the nebulae and stars as well. Image taken during the early morning hours of December 28, 2013 from Eastern Colorado. This picture is 82 frames stacked with the ISO set at 1600 and exposure times varied from 5 seconds to 90 seconds. The short exposure time was to try to not over-expose the core of Orion's Nebula.
7h20m on m42.
astromod canon 50d @ ISO800.
astronomik CLS clip-in filter
canon 200L f/2.8 + 2xTC @ f/8
main stack: 55x8 minutes exposure (7h20m)
shorter exposures for trapesium recovery: 10x15s, 10x30s, 10x60s
mount: orion skyview pro modded for GPUSB
autoguiding with PhD + meade DSI/celestron 50mm finderscope
calibrated, debayered (superpixel), registered and stacked with PixInsight 1.6.9
processing in PixInsight 1.6.9
final color tweaks in Lightroom 3
PI processing:
- reregistered integrated stacks
- HDRComposition
- dynamic background extraction
- created starmask from stretched and clipped Luminance + morphological dilation + atrous blur
- slight morphological selection (erosion) on stars (thru starmask)
- masked stretch (120 iterations to background = 0.120)
- histogram transformation
- HDRWavelet transformation
- histogram transformation
- extracted large scale features with atrous wavelets
- created small scale features with pixelmath (= original - large scale, rescaling on)
- histogram/curves on large scale features
- histogram and sharpening (atrous wavelets) on small scale features (thru star mask)
- new image = original + large scale + small scale with pixelmath (rescaling on)
- histogram tweak
- ACDNR
- created mask from luminance to protect background and stars
- atrous wavelet sharpening/noise reduction; bias ~0.3-0.4 on scales 1-4 (through mask)
- one more star reduction, first on smaller stars (original star mask) and then on larger stars (new star mask for only large stars)
- curves, ColorSaturation curves
- Bison Brewery IPA
Lightroom 3 processing:
- Split toning (highlights) to purple
- blue, red and orange saturation shift
- just a tiny bit of luminance noise reduction
- crop
notes: i found that with this combination of lens and teleconverter that there is significant coma and chromatic aberration. i'm not sure if it counts as CA but the R,G,B channels in each image are not aligned with each other in the original CR2s. in other words even in the center of the frame the centroids of the stars in each channel were a few pixels off from one another. i had to extract each channel of all of the 4 exposure lengths and re-register them against the green channel of the main stack in order to get everything aligned nicely.
The Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42 and NGC 1976. One of my all-time favourite celestial objects and something I look forward to imaging every winter. Each attempt brings out more detail and this image shows some of the fainter gas and dust in the vicinity. At the top of the image is the Running Man Nebula (Sh2-279), a reflection nebula north of M42 and an object that in previous attempts I've struggled to resolve. Both objects are part of the asterism known as Orion's Sword which on a clear night can be seen with the naked eye just below the three stars which make up Orion's Belt. M42 is one of the brightest nebulae and is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light-years. It is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light-years across.
For this image, a total of 78 shots were taken at three different exposure times. The three stacked exposures were then blended together in Photoshop to see the fainter details without the very bright heart of the nebula (a very young open cluster known as the Trapezium containing at least four energetic young stars) being massively overexposed. Conditions were surprisingly good for a change with clear sky and no Moon. This image is also my first attempt at processing on a Mac machine with a large monitor instead of struggling to see things properly on my PC laptop. I think it made a difference.
More information here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion%27s_Sword
020 x 300 second exposures at Unity Gain (139) cooled to -20°C
022 x 090 second exposures at Unity Gain (139) cooled to -20°C
036 x 030 second exposures at Unity Gain (139) cooled to -20°C
200 x dark frames
060 x flat frames
100 x bias frames (subtracted from flat frames)
Binning 1x1
Total integration time = 2 hours and 31 minutes
Captured with APT
Guided with PHD2
Processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop
Equipment:
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Mount: Skywatcher EQ5
Guide Scope: Orion 50mm Mini
Guiding Camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI1600MC Pro
Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector
Light pollution filter
The Orion Nebula (M42) and the Running Man nebula (Sh2-279).
60 seconds 46 Ha
30 Seconds 98 R, 85 G, 87 B
Celestron RASA 8
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI1600MM Pro
ZWO RGB filters.
Newbury, Berkshire, UK
Nikon FM2N
Fujichrome Sensia 400
Stack of three exposures (6 min, 3 min, 1.5 min) prime focus shot through Paul Klauniger's telescope.
From top to bottom: Open cluster NGC 1981, Running Man reflection nebula NGC 1977, Great Orion Nebula M42 and De Mairan's nebula M43.
I thought my polar alignment was a bit dodgy so thought that 2 minute exposures wouldnt blow out the nebula too much and wouldnt strain my polar alignment.
480/80mm refractor with Canon 60Da at ISO800. Astro-Hutech LPS filter. 14 x 2 min exposures. Guided and dithered with SSAG/PHD. Ioptron ZEQ25GT equatorial mount. 30 darks and 25 flats (white LED panel).
Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop CC
105mm telescope and Canon 20Da camera. High Dynamic Range from 2x5 images at ISO 1600 (f/7)
Two trails can be seen on the large size, one for sure a Geosynchronous satellite, the other, not sure.
NGC 1977 "Running Man Nebula" is on the left, use full size.
Robs_m42hdr20061119_filteredCrSG
IC434 Horsehead and Flame Nebula, and M42 Orion and Running Man Nebula - Test FOV ASI6200MC, 6th February 2020. ASI6200MC Pro. Optolong L-eNhance. TSAPO65Q. SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro / 6R StellarDrive. 8 x 10 Mins with SharpCap Pro. Processed in NINA. Some artefacts remain - issues processing.
Single capture shot near the end of a long night during which, between sunset and sunrise, I ran a marathon (42.2 km) and observed all the Messier objects except M 30, for which I chose to substitute the aptly named Running Man Nebula (NGC 1973-1975-1977) in tribute to the concept of a new event I’m calling the “bimarathon”- see warrenfinlay.com/bimarathon.html for more about the bimarathon.
NGC1977, The Running man nebula in Orion. This was really a short test shoot at the end of the night before the sky got too bright. With only 21 minutes of data it looks really rough and noisy.
Skywatcher Explorer 200P
NEQ6 Pro
EOS1100D (astro mod) + CLS clip filter
Guided with QHY5 mono finder/guider + IR/UV cut filter
7x 180s RGB @ISO800
+ darks + flats + dark flats + bias frames
Stacked in DSS and processed in Pixinsight & CS3
The central area of the constellation Orion as photographed with a 50mm Nikkor AF-D lens and a Nikon D5100 DSLR. 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 two images that were exposed for approximately 4 minutes each using a hand-driven, barn-door type tracking mount (two boards, a hinge, and a screw you turn by hand).
Please refer to the image notes for the locations of the Great Orion Nebula (M42/M43), the Running Man Nebula (NGC 1973/5/7), the Horsehead Nebula, the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024), the reflection nebula M78, and a small part of Barnard's Loop.
Captured on September 29, 2011 at 3:10AM PDT from a moderately dark-sky location with a Nikon D5100 DSLR (ISO 800, 240 second exposure x 2) and a 50mm AF-D Nikkor lens set to aperture f/2.8. Image stack created with Photoshop CS3 using two image frames combined with two dark frames (no flats or bias).
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Used Scott Rosen's LLRGB technique and processed my M42 again. Tutorial can be found here www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com/dslr_llrgb_tutorial.php
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
Image of The Orion and Running Man Nebula I took on 1-05-2013.
Equipment Used:
Celestron CGEM
StellarVue 80ED
Orion 80ST
Starshoot Autoguider
Self Modded Canon 1000D
Stack of 15x240sec. Dark subtraction.
Messier 42 Orion Nebula
October 16th 2010
30 x 1min + flats
iso 800
I have stretched the image to show the running man nebula a little brighter. Some skyglow/gradient due to lots of light pollution. Overall I am pretty happy with the image considering I shot this from a "redzone"..
Located approximately 1300 Light years from earth lies the Great Orion Nebula in the constellation of Orion, sometimes referred to as "Orions Sword". The Nebula is part of the "Orion Molecular Cloud Complex"
The Orion Nebula itself is about 24 light years across and can be seen with the naked eye quite easily, through a telescope with the naked eye it appears as a greenish cloud of dust
The above image compromises of the following:
Image Details
28x 1Min Exposures at ISO 800
19x 10 Min exposures at ISO 800
43x Dark Frames
55x Flat Frames
Celestron C80ED APO Refractor
Canon 450D Modified
Skywatcher 80 Guide Scope
Orion Starshoot Autoguider
Images Aquired with BackyardEOS
Images Stacked with Nebulosity 2
Post processed with Photoshop to align the two exposure sets
I plan on building in some 30 second exposures to detail out the core better
My latest image is of this reflection nebula, also known as The Running Man Nebula. Located in the constellation of Orion about 1,500 light years from Earth this reflection nebula doesn't emit any visible light on its own; instead it's illuminated by light from nearby stars. Embedded in a sea of stars and dust.
Taken from my back yard on the Sunny Coast of a total of 10 hours worth of data.
taken through my TEC 140 on AP 1100 using SBIG Stt-8300.
Orion is setting too early in the evening now, and the weather has been bad, will have to wait until next year for longer / cleaner exposures.
I tossed together all of the the reasonable exposures taken this year to see what I could get out of it. The camera was not oriented the same way on the telescope on the 5 different nights so there are bands at the corners with different brightnesses, but there is a lot more detail than in the previous versions, including the Running Man nebula in the top left.
32 exposures, ranging from 30 seconds to 80 seconds each, 22:51 total exposure time. ISO 100 to 400, flat frames used. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker.
Canon T1i, Meade 10" SN-10-AT telescope, F4 1016mm.
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Sur cette photo, j'ai capturé la grande nébuleuse d'Orion SH 2-281 et une petite partie de la nébuleuse de l'homme qui cours SH 2-279 en dessous sur la photo.
Ces nébuleuses sont distantes de 1350 années lulières et ont un diamètre de 24 années lumières. Ce sont des nébuleuses en émission (les gaz chauffés par les étoiles voisines emettent de la lumière) et en réflexion (les gaz et poussières reflettent la lumière des étoiles).
Matériel : Canon 1200 D défiltré partiel + filtre Optolong L-Enhance + Skywatcher Newton 150/750 avec chanfrein et correcteur de coma + Monture Skywatcher AZ-EQ5 + Autoguidage avec lunette Kepler 50/162, caméra Asi Zwo 120mm, et PHD2 Guiding sur Raspberry Pi3.
EXIFS : 56 poses de 180s (avec filtre L-Enhance) + 39 poses de 30s (sans filtre), iso 800
Softs : Siril (traitment HOO+RGB) + Gimp
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In this photo, I captured the Great Orion Nebula SH 2-281, along with a small portion of the Running Man Nebula SH 2-279, visible at the bottom of the image.
These nebulae are located about 1,350 light-years from Earth and span approximately 24 light-years in diameter.
They are both emission nebulae (where gas heated by nearby stars emits its own light) and reflection nebulae (where dust and gas reflect the light of surrounding stars).
Equipment used: Camera: Canon 1200D (partially modified for astrophotography), Filter: Optolong L-Enhance, Telescope: Skywatcher Newtonian 150/750 with beveled edge and coma corrector, Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ5, Autoguiding: Kepler 50/162 guide scope + ZWO ASI 120MM camera + PHD2 Guiding on Raspberry Pi 3
EXIF data: 56 exposures of 180 seconds (with L-Enhance filter) + 39 exposures of 30 seconds (without filter), ISO 800
Software: Siril for HOO + RGB processing, GIMP for final editing
Went over some old data of m42 area. The Runningman Nebula or ngc 1977 was always one of my favorites!
This is, again, the Sword of Orion region in the Orion Constellation. It contains the Running Man Nebula to the left and the Great Orion Nebula to the right, both being massive star forming regions. Without a doubt, one of the most amazing visual and photographic night sky objects.
This is a combination of data taken several days ago, processed with data taken last year. I decided to leave this in black and white as it tends to illustrate the detail in the nebulosity much better than color.
About 75 minutes (7, 4 and 1 minute frames)
- 5 * 3 minute dark frames
- 10 bias frames
- ISO 800
- Imaged with a Nikon D7000 and Astrotelescopes 80mm ED Refractor
- Guided with a Meade DSI and Orion SSAG through a William Optics 66mm Refractor
- Mounted on a Celestron CGEM
- Stacked in DSS
- Post processing in GIMP
- Mild tonemapping in Photomatix Pro
- Noise reduction in NeatImage
The brighter of the two nebulae in this image is the Orion Nebula (Messier 42 & 43), perhaps one of the most photographed and studied deep sky objects. Is is visible to the naked eye and is spectacular in a mid-size scope. The nebula above it is called the Running Man Nebula (NGC 1975) because the dark area inside it looks like a little cartoon man running with his arms outstretched. Above the Running Man is the open cluster NGC 1981, and the two stars just to the south of the Orion Nebula are sitting in the open cluster NGC 1980.
I really, really, wanted to image this area with my refractor before Orion dropped below the evening horizon until next winter, and thankfully I made it. There was a waxing crescent Moon, but M42 is so bright the image turned out anyway. This imaging session was rather civilized - while the telescope was doing its thing in my friends' driveway we sat inside and sipped cognac and solved the problems of the world... imaging at its best.
I finally managed to get some good data from my light polluted backyard. We have a long weekend starting tonight and clear skies every night. The moon rises late and it won't be too cold just after the end of twilight. So, here's a 30 minute (10 x 3 minute exposures + darks) stack of the Great Orion Nebula (M42), the Running Man Nebula, the Fire Nebula, and the Horsehead Nebula. This is a first go at the post-processing. I'm going to try a few other techniques later.
4x10s plus 7x30s plus 6x120s plus 5x240s at 800ISO. Williams Optics Megrez 72 DDG, guided on HEQ5. Modded 1000D and Astronomik EOS clip CCD-CLS.
Orion Nebula region in Ha through a cloud, pointed into a streetlight.
Barnards Loop, Flame Nebula, Horsehead Nebula, Running Man Nebula, Orion Nebula
Bower 85mm f/1.4 @ f/4
ASI 1600MM-Cool Gain 139 -20C
ZWO 7nm Ha filter
5 minutes
9x Ha
10x Dark frames
24x Flat frames
Deep Sky Stacker
Pixinsight 1.8
Red Zone light pollution
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Sky-Watcher Explorer 150PDS
Imaging Cameras
QHYCCD QHY168C
Mounts
Sky-Watcher EQM-35
Filters
Omegon Pro UHC
Software
Cyril Richard Siril · Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2 · Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA) · The EQMOD Project EQASCOM
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
SVBony SV106 60mm Guide Scope
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI224MC
Dates:
Jan. 4, 2023 · Jan. 22, 2023 · Jan. 24, 2023
Frames:
Omegon Pro UHC: 29×120″(58′) (gain: 1.00) f/5 -10°C bin 1×1
Omegon Pro UHC: 64×240″(4h 16′) (gain: 1.00) -10°C bin 1×1
Omegon Pro UHC: 38×120″(1h 16′) (gain: 5.00) f/5 -10°C bin 1×1
Omegon Pro UHC: 22×240″(1h 28′) (gain: 5.00) f/5 -10°C bin 1×1
Integration:
7h 58′
Darks:
25
Flats:
25
Flat darks:
25
Avg. Moon age:
5.44 days
Avg. Moon phase:
35.08%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:
6.25
Resolution: 9338x5818
File size: 19.7 MB
Locations: Astropics Observatory, Rome, Rome, Italy
Data source: Backyard
The Great Orion Nebula (Messier 42) poses with it's companions the Messier 43 and the Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977) in this LRGB HDR mosaic with 30s, 5min and 10min exposures as 2 panels.
It's still not perfect, but this will have to do for the foreseeable future for this object. The actual mosaic is 6300x8200, so it might make a nice print at some point.
Shot over multiple winter nights in 2012-2013. Photographed with WO FLT-110, WO 0.8x mk4 reducer, Baader LRGB filters in Atik EFW2 wheel, StarlightXpress SXVR-H18 CCD-camera on Synta EQ6 using MaxImDL and AstroTortilla. Processed in PixInsight.
Bottom left to top right: Messier 78, The Horsehead Nebula, the Running Man Nebula and the Orion Nebula.
This is a blend of three different exposures, 180sec, 60sec and 15 sec to capture the fainter detail while not overexposing the core.
Equipment:
Skywatcher 80ED
NEQ6 Pro mount
ST80 guidescope
QHY5 guide camera
Canon 450D modified
SW 0.85 focal reducer
Backyard Eos
PHD guiding
Stacking in Nebulosity
Processing in Photoshop CS6
The Orion Nebula (M42) is one the brightest nebula visible from Earth. M42 is shown in full color taken with light across the entire visible range of the spectrum. It is the lower large nebula in the photo above. It is visible to the naked eye as a small fuzzy star-like object in the winter night sky.
M42 is about 1,500 light years from Earth in our local neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy. The nebula is about 25 light years in diameter and occupies about four full Moon of square space in the night sky. The light captured to produce the above photo left M42 around 600 AD to start its 1,500 year journey to Earth.
M42 is a red emission nebula that is a stellar nursery in the process of giving birth to new stars and their corresponding planetary systems. Many protoplanetary disks have been observed in the Orion Nebula. The nebula glows due to the hot giant stars in the white core region stimulating the gas to glow. Without these stars, M42 would be barely visible. Due to its relatively close proximity to Earth, M42 is the target of intense study by astronomers.
The Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977) is located at the top of the above photo. Its name is derived the reddish stick-like figure of a running man that is imbedded in the blue reflection nebula that surrounds it. The runner is a faint red emission nebula. The running man stick figure is vertical and has his arms outstretched horizontally in opposite directions. The runner’s legs are also extended in opposite directions providing the illusion of rapid speed. The head of the man is located at the top center of the stick figure. The bluish part of the nebula is the result of blue light being scattered from interstellar dust. The light is derived from the hot blue stars that surround the nebula. Like M42, NCG 1977 is located at a distance of about 1,500 light years from Earth.
The above image was taken through the T20 remotely controlled robotic astrograph located at the New Mexico Skies Observatories' iTelescope's facilities in Mayhill, NM ( www.nmskies.com/ ). T20 is composed of a wide field Takahshi FSQ 106 optical system with a SBIG STL 11000M Monochrome CCD camera with a carousel of color filters that can be positioned in front of the camera. Astrodon wideband Luminance, Red, Green, and Blue filters were placed sequentially in front of the camera to acquire a total of 1.7 hours of imaging data from T20. A series of 2 and 3 minute exposures were taken to accumulate the 1.7 hours of total exposure time. The astrograph was controlled via the internet from my home in the suburbs of Washington, DC.
The raw data was downloaded to my home PC for processing. A dedicated astronomical imaging software program, Astro Pixel Processor, was used to produce the final composite full color image shown above. Adobe Photoshop 2020 was used to tweak the final image from the standpoint of color, saturation, and contrast.
One of the hydrogen richest starbirth nebulae in the Orion arm of the Milkyway, the complex of nebulae in Orion Constellations make some of the most popular targets for Astronomers of all walks around the world.
The faint, broken lines are geostationary satellites which were between the star light and the camera.
Nebulae in this photo
1.The Great Nebula in Orion
2. De Marain's Nebula
3. The Horsehead Nebula
4. The Running man Nebula
5. The Flame Nebula
30 x 2' @800 at 200mm