Well I hate to quote the former Disney darling Britney Spears but... "Oops I did it again..." I had to go and do it imaging an object that is a bit out of season. The hours I work afford me the ability to shoot objects that are better left alone until the winter months in the northern hemisphere. But at any rate here she is the Great Orion nebula and the Running Man nebula off to the left along for the ride. Here is the lowdown straight from Wikipedia. M42 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 about 1,500 light years away, and is the closest region of star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 30 light years across.
For this image I collected a mere twenty minutes of data so I am hoping to produce a more detailed image in the days to come using as much as an hours worth of data to tease out more or the gossamer wisps of hydrogen field of view.
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