M42 - The Sword of Orion: From the Core to the Faint Surroundings (Observatório Astrográfico do Boqueirão)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 36 Ori) · 41 Ori A) · 41 Ori C · 41 Ori D · 42 Ori) · 43 Ori) · 44 Ori) · 49 Ori) · Great Orion Nebula · IC 420 · IC 430 · Lower Sword · M 42 · M 43 · Mairan's Nebula · NGC 1975 · NGC 1976 · NGC 1977 · NGC 1980 · NGC 1981 · NGC 1982 · Orion Nebula · The star 45 Ori · The star Hatysa (ι Ori · The star Mizan Batil I (c Ori · The star Mizan Batil II (θ2 Ori · The star Mizan Batil III (d Ori · The star Thabit (υ Ori · The star Trapezium (θ1 Ori A · The star θ1 Ori C · And 3 more.

M42 - The Sword of Orion: From the Core to the Faint Surroundings, Observatório Astrográfico do Boqueirão

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One of the most prolific Winter targets in the night sky and if I'm not mistaken, the only nebulae that almost everyone can see at the naked eye, because of the trapezium young stars that radiate light across the entire known light spectrum, in which some of those lines falls over the human eye visible light in colors that goes from green to purple.
This star nursery is located in the Orion constellation, just bellow the Orion's belt, known as Messier 42, the sword of Orion, the Great Orion's Nebula, and a few other names..

That's my way of celebrating the Photographer's day this year, on January 8th, with the realese of this astronomical photo.
I've been working in Photography since 2009, made my academic studies where made in Design and Photography, which I've choose to end them with a Master degree in Photography around 2014/16 and I've choose since 2019 to dedicate my free time and knowledge to this special type of Photography.
In short, I have around 15 years on time dedicated to show to others, the world through a lens that is recorded to posterity.

RGB (CFA + Optolong L-Extreme F/2 High Speed) 300s x 40 F/2.8 - Gain 100 - Bin 1x1 - Offset 70 - Focal Lengh 135mm

50 Dark Frames + 50 Flats Frames + 50 Dark Flat Frames

The Moon was in the first night of acquisition, in the Waning Gibbous phase at 90.7% of ilumination, in a Bortle scale of 4 (21.63 Mag/Arc.Sec)

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