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Feb 21, Mar 1-2, 2013

Orion Nebula and Running Man (HaRGB)

Backyard - Plano, TX

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.

Running Man - 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 Running Man Nebula and Sharpless Catalog 279.

Takahashi FSQ-106N Quadruplet Fluorite Refractor (f/5)
SBIG STF-8300M CCD camera
Astro Tech 72 ED guidescope
Starlight Xpress Lodestar Guider
Astro Physics Mach 1 GTO mount

Hydrogen Alpha 1x1 - 10 at 60 sec and 9 at 20 min
Red 1x1 - 10 at 30 sec and 10 at 5 min
Green 1x1 - 10 at 24 sec and 10 at 4 min
Blue 1x1 - 10 at 20 sec and 10 at 4 min
RGB taken with IDAS LPS filter added
332 minutes total

Guided with PHD
Captured and Stacked in Nebulosity 3
Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop CS5 full exif


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