M42 Nebula in Orion (Bret Waddington)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: Great Orion Nebula · Lower Sword · M 42 · M 43 · Mairan's Nebula · NGC 1976 · NGC 1980 · NGC 1982 · Orion Nebula · The star θ1Ori · The star θ2Ori · The star ιOri

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One morning in September after my target dipped too low to image I took some frames of M42. It was around 4 am and it was high enough by then to image. I took 75x60s frames just to see how it would look with my new ASI533MC and the L_eNhance filter. For the next two months I repeated this at the end of my imaging sessions, each time changing the exposure time to compare to previous exposures. By early November I had 7.5 hours worth and combined them to see what I had. I want to add more, but between clouds, work, and my main targets don't know if I can this season. The last two nights I used the L_eXtreme filter, also just testing it out. I don't care for the halos the extreme has around the brightest stars, but the combined image I kinda like.

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