The
Orion Nebula is the brightest diffuse nebula in the sky, visible to the naked
eye. At distance of 1 600 light years this is also a big object in the sky -
66x60 arc minutes, thus covering four times area of the full Moon.This cloud
of gas and dust is a vast stellar nursery. Above M42 is NGC 1977,a reflection
nebula called the Running Man.
Image
below is obtained through a Megrez 80 triplet fluorite APO, TeleVue field flattener/focal
reducer 0,8x and Canon EOS 300D (1600 ASA, 12 minutes of total exposure).
Wide field view
image obtained through a telephoto lens 200mm/f:3,5 (piggyback shot - 20 min.exp.
on Fujicolor super G+ 800) - three stars of Orion belt, Flame nebula and Horsehead
nebula also visible.
Close-up image obtained through C9,25 at f6,3 on digital camera Canon EOS300D.
Two images, 3 and 1 minutes exposure, manually guided, are combined in Photoshop
- four stars of Trapezium is easily visible.
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