Observation by David Davies: The Orion Nebula

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David Davies

Observer

David Davies

Observed

2022 Jan 13 - 22:18

Uploaded

2022 Jan 20 - 20:36

Objects

The Orion Nebula (M42)
M43

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Constellation

Orion

Field centre

RA: 05^h35^m
Dec: -05°22'
Position angle: +1°33'

Field size

0°47' × 0°38'

Equipment

200mm Ritchey-Chretien plus 0.7x reducer
ASI ZWO 294MC Pro
Skywatcher EQ8

Exposure

4 se, 30 sec, 120 sec, 300 sec

Location

Cambridge, UK

Target name

M42, Orion Nebula

Title

The Orion Nebula

About this image

This is a second image of the Orion Nebula produced by adding a set of 300s exposures to the image of the Trapezium core. Again, I have tried to preserve the detail in the Trapezium whilst adding the very stretched image of the quite faint outer regions.

I confess I've had a bit of fun with this image and have used various software tools to accentuate the colour contrast between the reflection and emission nebulae and have not used any sharpening tools as such. So I've deliberately tried to inject some dynamism but to not overdo it.

Files associated with this observation

Orion Nebula RGB.jpg (1.4 MB)

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