Orion Nebula and The Running Man Orion
Location
- Date - Time
Camera
Optics
Mount
Software
Conditions
Canon
350D modified by Hap.
Orion
Atlas mount Guided with Astro IIDC through Meade
SN-6" with I.S. DMK 21AF04.AS
Nebulosity
for capture and stacking, Photoshop CS2 for post
processing
Transparency
, Seeing , Temperature +25 °F
Orion
80ED, WO 0.8 FR, with Astronomik CLS
Filter
Massapoag
Pond Observatory Lunenburg, MA - Jan. 1st and 2nd
2008 @ 7:00 PM EST
Notes
Diffuse
nebula
5h
35.4 min - 05° 27'
(Orion)
18 X
300s/5 X 60s/ 5 X 30 and 5 X 15s frames 30 darks
and flats ISO 1600.
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.
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.
M42
and (NGC 1976)
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