The Great Orion Nebula by AstronomyMan
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Description
This is a stellar nursery visible to the naked eye. You cannot see the baby stars in this picture, but buried deep in the cloud are four nice baby stars.
Look at the constellation Orion, locate his belt (three bright stars in a row) and look at his sward hanging from the belt. The sward looks like three stars, the middle one is all fuzzy. That is the great Orion Nebula.
Again, taken with a cheap webcam, electronically modified for long exposures, attached to a ST80 telescope on an ASGT mount.
20x60sec exposures stacked.
20x30sec exposures stacked
30x20sec exposures stacked
30x10sec exposures stacked
The four stacks above layered using PSP9 with huge amounts of Histogram stretching and unsharp masking.
Comments (5)
Onslow
Superb work :)
jcv2
Oh wow, another stunner! The Orion Nebula constallation, well known but oh wow, it's so beautiful here! Love the purple tones! Very impressive work! :)
redchilicat
Just amazing! Space is so fascinating! More people should take a look at your work.
kimariehere
spectacular!! i really am intrigued with this series!! bravo!!
Naichan
I recognize this old friend. Frankly I'm amazed that you could get such good results from a "cheap webcam". Looks like a pic from the astro magazines. Did you have to increase saturation too? Great stuff...