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| M42 - The Great Orion Nebula |
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Easily visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge in the sword of Orion , the Great Orion Nebula is actually within our own Milky Way galaxy, at a distance of about 1500 light years. It is a cloud of gas and dust which may be the home to new planets being "born" around newly formed stars. |
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| Date/Location: | Corringham 7 January, 2005 |
| Equipment: | TMB 5" F6 Refractor on AP900 |
| Camera/Exposure: | ST2000XM ccd camera HaRGB: 60/20/20/20 minuts (Ha=10 min subs, RGB = 5 min subs) |
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| Notes: | A high resolution image has been layered into the trapezium area |
View a larger size image here
View an earlier image (January 2002) here
| Date/Location: | Dengie Marshes, Essex 24th January, 2004 |
| Equipment: | TMB 5" F6 Refractor on AP900 mount guided with an ST4 |
| Camera/Exposure: | Olympus OM1 35mm camera / Provia P400F slide film / 1x50 mins, 1 x 5 mins |
| Processing: | Scanned with Minolta D'Image Scan Duall II @ 2700dpi, Aligned with Registar, post processed with Photoshop 7 |
| Notes: | My first really successful prime focus picture on film. Conditions were cold (-1 celsius) and damp/frosty with a slight breeze. I was pleased to see how the background nebulosity came out (but not sure if I've got the right colour). Also, I am not sure what caused the abberation/artifcat around the bright star lower left of centre. |
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