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Orion's nebula - widefield - in under an hour, Simon
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Orion's nebula - widefield - in under an hour

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Orion's nebula - widefield - in under an hour, Simon
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Orion's nebula - widefield - in under an hour

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I am not sleeping well these days, not that I am especially good with sleep anyway! So, I am awake pretty early and one of the wonderful things about this is the fresh air first thing in the morning, and I have noticed that the council seemed to have switched off some lights in this area, by that time of night/day... and with the southern direction being my better imaging zone, I cannot tell you how beautiful Orion was the other morning, which had risen by this point, into my southern preferred imaging region. Normally I leave imaging this object until December, but I could not resist the opportunity, what with the scope already set up for another object from earlier in the evening, which by this point had gone out of view anyway - behind my house. So, for two mornings in a row, before dawn, I managed to get a mere 25 minutes in Ha and 25 minutes in OIII. It is very, very rare for me to see stars down to magnitude 4, but on those two mornings that is what I was gifted with. A blessing from above! So here is the image. By the way, the reason why M42 is positioned so low in the FOV, is because I had no time to align the OIII data with the previous night's Ha data. So, this is somewhat rotated and cropped in order for alignment, but what I have captured is the belt - which is nice to have! I have also prioritised the rotated version as my final image, because this is how one sees these objects on the eye. Thanks everyone. Simon

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Orion's nebula - widefield - in under an hour, Simon