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Diffuse nebula
5h 35.4 min    - 05° 27'    (Orion) 
30 X 360s/5 X 180s and 3 X 45s frames shoot in .jpg no darks or flats ISO 800.
Canon 350D non-modified
Meade LXD75
Nebulosity for capture and stacking, Photoshop CS2 for post processing
Transparency , Seeing , Temperature +50 °F
Discovered 1610 by Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.
Located at a distance of about 1,600 (or perhaps 1,500) light years, the Orion Nebula is the brightest diffuse nebula in the sky, visible to the naked eye, and rewarding in telescopes of every size, from the smallest glasses to the greatest Earth-bound observatories and the Hubble Space Telescope.

Orion Nebula and The Running Man Orion

Orion 80ED @ f/7.5 prime focus
Massapoag Pond Observatory Lunenburg, MA -Nov. 10th 2006 @ 12:30 AM EST
Notes
This is my best image to date of M42.
M42 and (NGC 1976)
M42_All
Picture 2