January 31, 2011

M42 the nebula in Orion

This is probably the most photographed deep space object there is, the nebula in Orion.
When you look at the constellation of Orion you straight away make out the three stars that form his belt but below that there is a row of what looks like three stars. That is the sword on Orions belt and contains the famous nebula. Actually the middle star is a collection of multiple stars that sit in the middle of the nebula.


One photo of 30 seconds on ISO 400 already shows the nebula and i'm located in a very light polluted area. The photo is made of stack of 16 photo's.

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