Orion Nebula
Orion Nebula NGC-1976 taken from Staffordshire, UK by Nigel Armitage in May 2024.
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula in the Milky Way situated south of Orion’s Belt in the constellation of Orion and is known as the middle “star” in the “sword” of Orion.
It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky with an apparent magnitude of 4.0. It is 20 light-years away and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth.
M42 is estimated to be 25 light-years across (so its apparent size from Earth is approximately 1 degree). It has a mass of about 2,000 times that of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
The objects in Orion do not present a large challenge, the issue I face is the exceptionally short duration it is visible to me.
This is one of my earliest pieces of work, it is not a good image at all.
I could not see it for long due to my location.
But, I was very happy to get even something.
Poor quality aside, I was really happy to get this.
It was taken in a Bortle 5 Sky.
The equipment used was:
Equipment Used:
Williams Optics Redcat 71
ASI ZWO240MC Pro OSC
Dual Narrowband Filter
ZWO AM5
The image was processed using Siril and Photoshop.
Orion Constellation Map. Credit: IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine
(Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg). License: CC 4
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