Over many years now, when viewing wider field shots of M42, my eye has often been drawn to this finger shaped bit of nebula.

A regular thought over the years has been "I've never seen a close up shot of this cool little globule, I should shoot it one day."

...so, finally, ta daaah! 

This intriguing ghostly feature, is a small (approx. 12' X 4') globule of dusty emission nebula, located right next to the Great Nebula in Orion.



Orion Optics UK AG12 F3.8
Starlightxpress TRIUS PRO-814 Midi Combi PRO Blue Edition incl. CFW & OAG unit
FLI Atlas Focuser
LRGB = 400, 70, 70, 70min total 10.2 hrs
Astronomik Deep-Sky LRGB filters
-20C chip temp, flats used but no dark frames.
Focal length 1120mm
Image scale 0.68"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress Lodestar PRO

Comments
Data collected over three nights during Jan 2025, with good to acceptable seeing*

*NB: No deconvolution, upscaling, drizzle guide, Blur Exterminator or other AI based sharpening, was used on this
data, this is the native 0.68"/pix image scale.

Seeing (FWHM) quality at Eagleview:
Excellent: <1.6"
Good: 1.6" - 1.9"
Acceptable: 2.0" - 2.3"
Poor: >2.3"
Most common FWHM value: 1.6"/1.7"

Taken from Eagleview Observatory:

https://pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/eagleview_observatory

Equipment setup:

https://pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/173097781/original

Some links to equipment used to take this image:

Sidereal Trading

https://www.siderealtrading.com.au/

StarlightXpress CCD Cameras and imaging equipment

http://www.sxccd.com/products

Finger Lakes Instrumentation CCD cameras:

http://www.flicamera.com/

Gerd Neumann and Astronomik filters:

http://www.astronomik.com/en/home

http://www.gerdneumann.net/

MSB Software & Astroart Camera control and Image processing software

http://www.msb-astroart.com/