Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Great Nebula in Orion  ·  Horsehead nebula  ·  IC 434  ·  M 42  ·  M 43  ·  NGC 1976  ·  NGC 1977  ·  NGC 1981  ·  NGC 1982  ·  NGC 1990  ·  NGC 2024  ·  Part of the constellation Orion (Ori)  ·  The star Alnilam (εOri)  ·  The star Alnitak (ζOri)  ·  The star Bellatrix (γOri)  ·  The star Betelgeuse (αOri)  ·  The star Meissa (λOri)  ·  The star Mintaka (δOri)  ·  The star Rigel (βOri)  ·  The star Saiph (κOri)  ·  The star ηOri  ·  The star ιOri
Orion widefield 50mm, Volker Gutsmann
Orion widefield 50mm
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Orion widefield 50mm

Orion widefield 50mm, Volker Gutsmann
Orion widefield 50mm
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Orion widefield 50mm

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This wide field was taken from my terrace facing south towards Leverkusen and Cologne, two cities that produce strong light pollution. Nevertheless, I wanted to take this particular image since I started in astrophotography and even bought this lens for it ... but now I believe wide fields are better taken in darker areas. Removing of gradients was really hard.

The Zeiss Planar 50 mm, in combination with an IDAS LPS filter, does seem to produce a nice field with little distortion and CA.

120 x120 sec, all in all 4 h. The original image was slightly cropped, processing in PI was mostly gradient removal, arcsin stretch, followed by masked stretch. Final improvements in Lightroom.

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Orion widefield 50mm, Volker Gutsmann

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