- Object Information:
- Messier 42 - The Orion Nebula
- Constellation - Orion
- Distance - approximately 1,600 light years.
- This image of the central potion of the Orion Nebula [Messier 42 and Messier 43] is a cropped and higher resolution of my wide field image of the Orion Nebula region. Messier 43 is the bright comma-shaped area above and to the left of the center of the image. Messier 42 is the bright central portion of the nebula.
- Imaged at:
- Shelter Valley, San Diego County, California.
- Elevation - 2500 feet
- Equipment:
- Optics - Takahashi E-160 at f/3.3
- Mount - Astro-Physics 1200GTO,
- Camera - SBIG STL-11000M
- Exposure Information:
- December 17, 2009
- The final image above is a composite of 30 second, 1 minute and 6 minute exposures. Short exposures were layered into the image with multiple layer masks with Photoshop CS4 to improve the detail of the central portion of the nebula.
- The main field exposure is an RGB image consisting of 48 minutes per color channel.
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