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The image on the left is straight out of the camera with no processing at all. The image on the right is the final version after having been processed in Adobe Lightroom.
After a long, very wet, and very cloudy spell here in the Pacific Northwest, last night I was afforded crisp, clear skies in which I took no time wasting setting up my telescope and imaging gear again. This is a combination of three sets of data. Two sets of data were shot last fall and this set, shot overnight on January 14, 2013. I combined them in Deep Sky Stacker, then combined those with a few sets of pre-made flat and dark frames to make this beauty. Over the next couple nights (weather permitting) I am going to add more data to this.
First Sword of Orion Region shot for the winter season of 2011. I have big plans for this set of objects and this is a test shot taken tonight. Come January, I'll be working on using multiple exposures to make a better composite shot of this region...
My latest version of M42, M43, and NGC1977. With new data from another run I was able to really bring out a lot more of the nebulosity without losing all of the Trapezium stars. I also got a lot more nebulosity out of the so called Running Man Nebula.
Apilado de 215x15s +55x30 s +60x8s (1.5h), f:400mm @ F/5.7, ISO 1600. Canon 1000D +Celestron 70/400, montura CG4. 27/08 y 09/11/2012
15 exposures @ 60 sec, 15 exposures @ 120 sec, 15 exposures @ 240 sec, ISO 800 Camera: Canon EOS 1000D Instrument: Meade 102/700mm APO Refractor
The Orion Nebula and the 'Running Man nebula' are situated in the constellation of Orion, just below its 'belt'. The Orion nebula forms the tip of Orion's sword. Viewed through binoculars or a telescope it does not reveal color, but when photographed, its true beuaty comes out. The very bright part in the centre is a birthplace of stars.
Still a view through a telescope to see a nebula like this one live is an amazing experience, I can recommend it to everyone that has the chance to do so.
Subject: M42, M43, NGC1977, IC434, B33, NGC2024 (Orion, Running Man, Horsehead, Flame Neublae)
Image FOV: 7.0 degrees by 4.7 degrees (420 minutes by 282 minutes)
Image Scale: 20 arc-second/pixel
Date: 2009/09/26
Exposure: 10 x 10 minutes = 1h40 total exposure, ISO800, f/3.4
Filter: Astrodon 5nm H-alpha filter
Camera: Hutech-modified Canon 30D
Lens: Leica APO Telyt-R 180mm f/3.4 at f/3.4
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900
Guiding: ST-402 autoguider and TV102iis guidescope. MaximDL autoguiding software using 10-second guide exposures
Processing: Raw conversion and calibration with ImagesPlus; Aligning and combing with Registar; Gray conversion, levels adjustment, cropping/resizing, JPEG conversion with Photoshop CS. No sharpening or noise reduction.
Remarks: Temperature at start/end: 34F/34F; SQM-L reading start/end: 21.50/21.39
Subject: M42, M43, NGC1977 -- Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula
Date: 2005/01/23
Exposure: 2x1sec + 2x2sec + 2x4sec + 2x8sec + 2x15sec + 20x30sec + 3x45sec = 13min 15sec total , ISO 400 and ISO 800, f/2.8
Lens: Nikon 300mm f/2.8 AIS
Camera: Canon 10D (unmodified)
Mount: single-arm (first) motorized barndoor tracker, unguided
Processing: Images aligned and combined in Registar. Final processing in Photoshop. No dark or flat frames used.
Remarks: Many more subexposures were discarded -- these are the only good ones. Numerous problems with the barndoor spoiled the majority of the images. This is the only image taken with the first motorized barndoor.
There was a half-moon out, shining on fresh snow, adding to the already-horrendous light pollution around here, and no light pollution filter was used. 30-45 seconds was about the sky-fog limit under these conditions. Of course, the barndoor tracker is not good for a very long exposure with a 300mm lens, anyway. Even at 30-45 seconds, you can see many elongated stars in this image, caused by poor tracking of the earth's rotation.
The Great Orion Nebula stands out as one of the most wonderful telescopic objects in the sky. The central area is the so-called Huygenian Region, which is a bright zone sharply bounded on the south side, into which protrudes a dark nebula, not unlike the Horsehead Nebula, but more diffuse. The whole area is sprinkled with small stars, many of which are known to be "dust variables", which flicker as dust swirls in and out of their newly born atmospheres. In this region active star birth is taking place. Infrared images of the area "see through" the nebula and reveal young stars newly formed. In Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images the dark globules surrounding these stars can be seen. They are born in dense clouds of dust and gas from the nebula. The Trapezium at the heart of M42 is a remarkable multiple star with four easy components and two which are more difficult to observe, those are hot B-type stars belonging to the Orion Association which are quite young, born in the nebula itself. The three belt stars of Orion as well as the stars Rigel are also part of this association. The whole figure of Orion is alight with faint nebulous light coming from gas excited by these stars.
The Orion Nebula is located at a distance of about 1.500 light years.
NGC 1973/75/77, the Running Man Nebula or Apeman Nebula (located in the upper part in the photograph), is another example of a mixed emission/reflexion/absortion nebula often overlooked because of the much brighter Orion Nebula just half a degree to the south. It is beautifully located in-between and around a group of bright stars. Most of the blue nebulosity is starlight scattered by dust, but some of the stars are sufficiently hot to excite the wisps of hydrogen that linger here and create the distinctive red glow.
This Orion Nebula image is the first with my new camera - a full-spectrum Canon 450D used in conjunction with an Astronomik CLS-CCD clip filter. It's a cumulative 9 x 2.5-minute ISO1600 exposure at the focus of my TS 65mm f/6.5 Quadruplet refractor, all mounted on an unguided Vixen GP mount.
One of the most fascinating regions of the sky, the region below the belt stars in Orion. The rather large nebula is the famous Orion Nebula, a region of new star formation 1,300 light-years away. The other region is just below Alnitak, the lowest of the belt stars. Here there is the Flame Nebula and the famous Horsehead Nebula, a faint hydrogen-alpha area with a dust cloud in the shape of a horse's head. It's hard to see here, but in a longer focal length lens it should look well defined.
equipment: Leica Apo-Elmarit-R 180mmF2.8 at F4 and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2 by Seo san at iso 1,600 on Takahashi EM-200 temma 2Jr, autoguided with hiro-design off-axis guider, StarlightXpress Lodestar autoguider, and PHD Guiding
exposure: 2 times x 30 minutes, 6 x 8 min, 11 x 4 min, 11 x 1 minute, 10 x 15 seconds, 10 x 4 sec, and 10 x 1 second
Location: 11,000 feet above sea level near MLO, Mauna Loa Observatory on the shoulder of Mauna Loa in the Big Island, Hawaii
Imaging telescope: Takahashi FSQ-85EDX
Imaging camera: QHY163M
Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G
Guiding camera: Orion Starshoot Autoguider
Software: Adobe PhotoShop, Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight, PHD Guiding 2
Filters: Astronomik LRGB , Astronomik H-alpha 6nm
Accessories: QHYCCD QHYCFW2-M-UltraSlim, USB_Focus v3, QHYCCD Polemaster
Date: Dec. 24, 2017
Frames:
H-alpha 6nm: 30x120" (gain: 60.00) -30°C bin 1x1
LRGB : 60x5" (gain: 60.00) -30°C bin 1x1
LRGB : 120x60" (gain: 60.00) -30°C bin 1x1
Integration: 3.1 hours
Location: WWII Landing Field in Lavariano (UD) Italy
The Great Orion Nebula and The Running Man Nebula
Composite Image created with:
69 of 75 5sec subs, 70 of 80 10sec subs, and 80 of 94 65sec subs on 12/27/2013
average seeing average transparency
Hap Griffin-modded Astrodon UV/IR filtered T2i w/ MPCC
AT8IN on hypertuned Warps Drive LXD75.
The Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula (M42 and NGC1975) are also found in the constellation of Orion, approximately 1345 light years away.
Running Man Nebula, M43 and M42 in constellation Orion. Distance:1300l.y.
Taken from suburban Sydney backyard on 17/10/2009
Modified Canon EOS 400D, Orion ED80 (FL600mm) at prime focus. IDAS LPS filter
EQ5 mount autoguided by PhD
ISO800 3 X 4.5min subs stacked in DeepSkyStacker with darks.
A much improved effort from the previous :
www.flickr.com/photos/26678755@N07/2636349230/in/set-7215...
While photographing the early crescent moon on Feb 22, 2012 I had the opportunity to work at a fairly dark location (different from my light-polluted hometown) and here is what I got when stacking a series of 51 images that were each exposed for 2.5 seconds. All of the requisite players are here, the Great Orion Nebula (M42), M43, the Running Man Nebula, the Flame Nebula, M78 (very small at this scale), and a very faint trace of the Horsehead Nebula (if you know where to look). I think there may also be some evidence of Barnard's Loop, but that may just be wishful thinking. This image was produced without any tracking or guiding, just my digital camera on a fixed tripod.
This image is best viewed in the Flickr light box (press the "L" key or click the following link):
Photographed on February 22, 2012 between the hours of 8:06PM and 8:11PM PST using a Sony NEX-5N camera and a Minolta Rokkor-X 50mm 1:1.7 lens (ISO 3200, 2.5 second exposure x 51, f/2.8). Image registration, integration (or "stacking," giving a total integration time of 128 seconds), and adjustments done with PixInsight v01.07.05.0779 with additional tweaks using Mac OS X's Preview application and Photoshop CS3.
I still have another 150 images to add to the stack, so I suspect that in a few days I may have something better to share (I may also add dark fields, bias, and flat fields, none of which were included for the above image).
All rights reserved.
Actually taken several months ago, and I thought I would run it through some HDR software just for grins. Decent result!
These two nebulas are located on the Orion Constellation, and form the "sword" underneath Orion's "belt". The M42 Nebula (on the right) is about 1300 light years away, and is a massive star and solar-system forming gas cloud. The "Running Man" nebula on the left is around 1600 light years away.
- 10*120 second exposures
- Nikon D40
- Astrotelescopes 80mm ED Refractor
- Celestron CGEM Mount
- Guided with Meade DSI mounted on WO 66mm Refractor
Canon 6D
Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4 Teleconverter
Vixen Polarie tracking head
103 x 40sec exposures (=70min)
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Photoshop and Lightroom
Canon 6D
Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4 Teleconverter @ f/5.6
Vixen Polarie tracking head
51 x 30sec @ISO3200
22 x 30sec @ISO12800
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Lightroom
Canon 6D
Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4 Teleconverter @ f/5.6
Vixen Polarie tracking head
51 x 30sec @ISO3200
22 x 30sec @ISO12800
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Lightroom
Orion Nebula (M42/NGC 1976) and Running Man Nebula (Sh2-279)
I extracted the starless Red channel from the L-eXtreme integration and combined with the RGB image from the UV-IR Blocking filter to enhance the reds.
The RGB image is with the Astronomik L2 UV-IR Blocking Filter under Bortle 4 skies of Joshua Tree National Park. I arrived late at 10 PM, so I only kept 10 subs at 180 secs before the background became too bright due to the light pollution near the horizon.
The extracted red Ha channel is with the Optolong L-eXtreme Filter under Bortle 8 skies at home.
I attempted an HDR composite by imaging at 10, 30, and 180 seconds to retain the detail and color near the Orion Trapezium Cluster and pull out the faint nebulosity.
Total Time:
L-eXtreme – Montclair, CA
39 x 10 sec = 6 min 30 sec
40 x 30 sec = 20 min
97 x 180 sec = 4 hrs 51 min
Integration Time: 5 hrs 17 min 30 sec
UV-IR Blocking – Joshua Tree National Park, CA
20 x 10 sec = 3 min 20 sec
20 x 30 sec = 10 min
10 x 180 sec = 30 min
Integration Time: 43 min 20 sec
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Location: Montclair, California, USA (Bortle 8); Cholla Cactus Garden, Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA (Bortle 4)
Date: January 1-5, 2022; January 28, 2022
Moon: New Moon; Waning Crescent (12%)
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9
Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme 2”; #astronomikfilters L2 UV-IR Blocking 2”
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75
Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Battery: Jackery Portable Power Station Explorer 300
Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 10 sec, 30 sec, 180 sec
Software: PixInsight, Topaz Labs Denoise AI, Adobe Lightroom Classic
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Copyright © 2022 Steven K. Wu Photography. All Rights Reserved.
Version A - Set to keep the background sky nearly black, with good contrast on the core of the nebula. No sign of the Running Man nebula in the top left
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. 25 minutes total exposure time.
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.
After stretching, I used PI's dark structure enhancer to bring out the dark dust areas.
I shot 80x 30 second exposures, dropped the exposures where the stars were not quite round.
DARK SKY PROJECT Photo taken by Chris Murphy - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand.
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt. 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±20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. Older texts frequently referred to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
NGC 1973/5/7 is a reflection nebula 1/2 degree northeast of the Orion Nebula. The three NGC objects are divided by darker regions. It is also called the The Running Man Nebula and Sharpless Catalog 279.
30x2min 30x1min subs, 1hour 30min combined exposure.
Skywatcher Explorer 190 MN Pro telescope,Skywatcher EQ6 Pro mount., Scopos 80mm guide scope. Starlight Xpress SXVF M25C camera, SX Lodestar guide camera, Astronomik CLS light pollution filter. Processed and acquired using Maxim DL5, Photoshop CS2, Noel Carboni's actions and Star Spikes Pro. Harrold Observatory, Harrold, Bedfordshire, UK. 18/10/09
Sword and Belt of Orion in a close up with a moderate telephoto lens. The Horsehead Nebula is the dark notch in the reddish-magenta cloud of hydrogen below the left star (Alnitak) in the Belt. Orion's Sword contains the famous Orion Nebula, the bright pinky-cyan cloud of glowing hydrogen gas that is a popular target for backyard astronomers. The Orion Nebula is easy to see, even in binoculars, but the Horsehead Nebula is very tough to spot, even by experienced amateur astronomers, despite it showing up easily in long-exposure photos like this one.
Technical:
Taken with a filter-modified Canon 5D MkII camera and Canon 200mm L-Series lens at f/4 for stack of 4 x 4 minute exposures at ISO 800. Median combined for eliminating satellites. Taken January 18, 2010.
© 2010 Alan Dyer
2nd processing --- data on original process:
www.flickr.com/photos/akryger/4257682738/
A bit less vignetting and not quite so saturated, otherwise similar, but I think this is a better version... kinda need to look at larger versions to get better idea of differences
Subject: M42 M42 NGC1977 -- Orion Nebula and and Running Man Nebula
Date: 2005/01/01
Exposure: 120s + 3s (core), ISO 800, f/2.8
Filter: Lumicon Deep Sky
Camera: Canon 10D (unmodified)
Lens: Canon 200mm f/2.8
Mount: Single-arm hand-powered barndoor tracker, unguided
Processing: Photoshop used to combine the two exposures. No darks or flats.
Remarks: A hand-powered barn-door tracker was used.
This is actually two shots combined in photoshop. A 2-minute exposure to capture faint detail, and a 3 second shot for the bright areas near the center (This 2nd shot was actually an error, since my finger slipped off the cable release prematurely after 3 seconds as I was trying to keep the barn door tracker in synch the second hand.).
This was the only 2-minute exposure out of several that turned out reasonably OK (no major startrailing). This was the only image taken with the hand-powered barndoor tracker.
This dusty reflection nebula is found very close to the Great Nebula in Orion. Bright young stars illuminate the dust with an ethereal blue light, whilst in the background, Hydrogen gases emit a deep red glow. The nickname "The Running Man" comes from the nebula's appearance through a telescope eyepiece.
Picture captured with a Skywatcher Quattro 10" Newtonian telescope and QHY8 colour camera in January 2012. Total exposure time 3.5 hours (14x900secs)
The Running Man Nebula, NGC 1977, is on the left side, with The Orion Nebula, M 42, on the right side.
This is a image of 6, 120 second images stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
This was shot thru a Vixen ED103S telescope at prime focus.
February 3, 2011
Camera Canon EOS 50D
Exposure ( 6x120) 12 minutes
Aperture f/7.7
Focal Length 795 mm
ISO Speed 1600
Subject: M42+M43+NGC1977
Image scale: 30 arcsec/pixel
Notes: Compare this shot to others in the set to show the relative sizes of these astronomical targets.
This was taken with a Nikon D50, 200mm lens, ISO 1600 with Noise Reduction, 18 images X 3minute each for a total of 54 minutes. The Running Man Nebula is on the left.
M42 in Orion.
30 x iso 400, iso 800, iso 1000 at 2-3mins stacked in DSS and finished in LR/CC2019.
Gear:
Canon 60Da
Skywatcher 80ED Pro
Celestron CGEM
Canon 300 f/2.8 + 1.4x at f/4.5
ISO 1600 x 9 at 1min 30sec for long exposures
ISO 800x48 at 1 min for mid exposures
ISO 800 x 19 10sec for short exposures
North Kaibab National Forest, Arizona
I would have liked to gather more long exposures, but I was up against the sunrise. What originally looked like 10+ good nights for astrophotography turned into 2 or 3, with this being the last chance for the Orion Nebula.
It took three drawings to cover Orion's sword. The area is ripe with fascinating deep sky objects. The difficulty, is forcing one's self away from the Great Orion Nebula which is positioned in the middle of the sword. I am always surprised that many think the Running Man Nebula (just north of the Great Orion Nebula) is only a photographic target. However, even under suburban skies I can get hints of it, even without the use of nebula filters. With nebula filters, the extent of the nebula grows in the eyepiece. The visual view will never compare with the photographs of this marvelous nebula, but it should not be overlooked by those of us that still look directly through the telescope.
The other two drawings of the Orion's sword are at: www.flickr.com/photos/dragonflyhunter/40139351222/in/phot... & www.flickr.com/photos/dragonflyhunter/38568267252/in/date...
Additional astronomical drawings can be seen at www.orrastrodrawing.com
Nikon D90 camera
Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM APO Autofocus Lens
Orion TeleTrack GoTo Altazimuth Telescope Mount
14 X 30” exposures, f/6.3, ISO1600, 500mm
Dark, flat, dark-flat, and offset-bias frames applied
Under a dark rural sky on New Year's Eve I tried another shot of the four well known Orion nebulae. The tracking was slightly off (as illustrated by the elongated stars) so I only managed to use three of the six frames I took. Still that's 12 minutes of light gathering on the CCD sensor. There was no filter used during the exposure since I don't have one to fit the 72mm thread on the 180mm lens.
This image marks a milestone in my astrophotography hobby. This is my first image that I piggybacked the 8inch and 80ED telescopes together and took autoguided exposures. I used PHP for guiding which seems easy enough. For my guide camera I used the Meade LPI. Now I have to learn what I am doing. This is also the first image that I used Flats. I used the TShirt flat method. Visually this image isn't good but its here for historical reasons.
Der Orionnebel Messier 42 und seine nördliche Fortsetzung Messier 43. Canon EOS 500Da + IDAS LPS-P2, EF 5,6/400mm L. 60x60s = 1:00h bei f5,6/ISO 800.
Subject: Orion sword mosaic -- 6 panels (includes existing M42 shot + existing HH shot + 4 others)
Image FOV = 6.62 degrees by 4.78 degrees (397 minutes by 287 minutes) -- approximate
Image Scale = 20 arc-second/pixel
Date: 2006/12/02, 2006/12/30, 2007/01/10, 2007/01/16, 2007/01/17, 2007/02/08, 2007/02/09, 2007/02/15, 2007/02/16
Exposure: 39x600s (M42 area) + 40x600s (Horsehead area) + 66x600s (rest) = 145x600s = 24h10m total exposure -- ISO800, f/4.8
Filter: Baader 7nm H-alpha filter
Camera: Hutech-modified Canon 30D
Telescope: SV80S 80mm f/6 + TV TRF-2008 0.8X reducer/flattener = 384mm FL, f/4.8
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guiding: ST-402 autoguider and SV66 guidescope. MaximDL autoguiding software using 1-second guide exposures
Processing: Raw conversion and calibration with ImagesPlus (dark and bias frames only, no flat frames); Aligning and combining with Registar; Initial levels adjustment (gamma=2.5) and cropping in PhotoShop CS and CS4. Then mosaicing with AutoPano Pro, more levels adjustment, downsampling, and JPEG conversion with PhotoShop CS4.
Remarks: temperatures at end: 25F, 24F, 19F, 25F, 27F, 23F, 23F, 20F, 25F. Taken from a light-polluted location (perhaps 20.25 SQM reading, average)
Der große Orionnebel M42 (Messier 42). Der Nebel ist in klaren Winternächten bereits mit bloßem Auge erkennbar. Der Orionnebel wird von jungen Sternen im Zentrum des Nebels ionisiert und beleuchtet.
Direkt links vom Orionnebel befindet sich noch der kleinere blaue Running-Man-Nebel. Der Name Running Man entstand, weil der dunkle Mittelteil des Nebels so ähnlich aussieht wie ein laufender Mann. Alle Nebel sind Sternentstehungsgebiete und gehören zu einer größeren Wasserstoff-Molekülwolke im Sternbild Orion.
Aufgenommen am 13.02.2021 mit der Canon EOS 7D Mark II und dem Skywatcher ED80/600mm Refraktorteleskop auf einer Skywatcher EQ6-R-Pro Montierung. Aufnahme mit 52 Einzelbildern zu jeweils unterschiedlichen Belichtungszeiten (92 Minuten Gesamtbelichtungszeit) bei ISO 800.
Nikon FM2N
Fujichrome Sensia 400
Nikon Series E 70-210 f/4 (shot at 210mm, f/4)
Stack of two images shot at 2 mins and 4 mins. Camera + lens mounted on an equatorial drive.
I remembered that I must have breathed on the front element by accident (it was cold, and immediately turned to ice). That might explain the slight fuzziness, or it could have been a focusing error.