Hunter's Belt (Joshua Kovach)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 31 Ori · 34 del Ori · 46 eps Ori · 48 sig Ori · 50 zet Ori · Alnilam · Alnitak · B33 · Flame Nebula · Horsehead nebula · IC 423 · IC 426 · IC 431 · IC 432 · IC 434 · IC 435 · LBN 913 · LBN 914 · LBN 918 · LBN 921 · LBN 924 · LBN 925 · LBN 927 · LBN 935 · LBN 940 · LBN 944 · LBN 946 · LBN 950 · LBN 953 · LBN 954 · And 22 more.

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Hunter's Belt

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Hunter's Belt

I've seen pictures of the Horsehead Nebula since I was a kid, and nearly all my life, I never knew where it was in the sky. There's so rarely a reference point of stars I knew. I wanted to capture this full image of Orion's Belt – with all three of its main stars – to highlight just how much more dynamic this part of the sky actually is. The area is surrounded by dark flows of dust, with rivers and wisps of luminous nebulae that I never knew existed.

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Title: Hunter's Belt - Meteors Edition

Description: This is a submission for the Explore Alliance Astrophotography meteors contest.

The large meteor streak was observed at 2021-12-12T08:53:58 UTC, while the other smaller ones were all observed throughout the evening of 2022-01-03.

The images with meteor streaks were re-stacked without rejection in PixInsight. The meteor trails were then cut out in Gimp, binarized and blurred in PixInsight, and used as a mask for stretching the original 5-image stack. The streaks were then added to the final processed version of Orion's Belt using PixelMath.

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Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association

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Astrometry.net job	5379873
PixInsight job	Z28N7XUDSQK3K3HPZ0NXL9WUR1B0NMYQ
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h37m13s.68
RA (top/left)	05h48m23s.56
RA (top/right)	05h31m27s.64
RA (bottom/right)	05h26m03s.75
RA (bottom/left)	05h43m00s.39

Dec (center)	-01°37′29″.2
Dec (top/left)	-01°24′20″.5
Dec (top/right)	+00°46′28″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	-01°50′27″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	-04°01′23″.9

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