| M42 M43 | Great Orion Nebula NGC 1976 NGC 1982 |
| Emission Nebula | Orion |
| Magnitude 3.7 - 6.8 | Diameter 1.5 degrees - 20min |
| 11/01/2003 |
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| Charlotte | Prime focus | f/4 |
| 800mm | 16x | Motor drive and manual guiding |
| Canon Digital Rebel | 400 ISO | 4 minutes 49 seconds |
| Stack of 4 pictures (72s + 72s + 72s + 73s) aligned with Photoshop, curves and levels adjusted to get rid of the light pollution and the slight shift to red. |
| 11/22/2003 |
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| Doughton Park | Prime focus | f/4 |
| 800mm | 16x | Motor drive and manual guiding |
| Canon Digital Rebel | 400 ISO | 10 minutes 17 seconds |
| Stack of 4 pictures (165s + 166s + 146s + 140s) aligned with Photoshop, curves and levels adjusted to get rid of the light background light. The Trapezium has been added afterwards from a single 21 seconds photo with the use of a layer mask. |
| 01/16/2004 |
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| Doughton Park | Prime focus | f/4 |
| 800mm | 16x | Motor drive and manual guiding |
| Canon Digital Rebel | 400 ISO | 32 minutes 4 seconds |
| Stack of 7 pictures (279s + 280s + 280s + 275s + 275s + 269s + 266s) aligned with Photoshop, curves and levels adjusted to get rid of the light background light. The Trapezium has been added afterwards from a single 19 seconds photo with the use of a layer mask. The whole center of the nebula is also using a layer mask of a single 279 seconds photo, otherwise it was too bright - the long exposure is for the faint nebulosity on the edges. No wind, clear sky, temperature around 25F. |
| 12/15/2004 |
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| Doughton Park | Prime focus | f/6 |
| 600mm | 12x | Motor drive |
| Canon Digital Rebel | 800 ISO | 10 minutes |
| Stack of 5 pictures (120s each) aligned with Photoshop, curves and levels adjusted to get rid of the light background light. The refractor telescope gives this weird look to the stars. |
| 11/02/2005 |
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| Doughton Park | Prime focus | f/3.3 |
| 530mm | 12x | Motor drive |
| Canon 20D | 1600 ISO | 36 minutes |
| Stack of 12 pictures (180s each) aligned with Photoshop. |
| 11/24/2006 |
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| Doughton Park | Prime focus | f/3.3 |
| 530mm | 12x | Motor drive |
| Canon 20Da | 1600 ISO | 48 minutes |
| Stack of 16 pictures (180s each) calibrated, aligned and stacked with ImagePlus. Careful processing with Photoshop. The core has been captured with 9 pictures of 5 seconds each and 9 pictures of 20 seconds each. |
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