#Astrophotography
Yay! I was able to get two nights of photos after TWO months of no night sky! (Thanks Vancouver)
This is the Great Orion Nebula. I added Hydrogen Alpha capturing to really highlight the nebulosity around the main Nebula.
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The Orion Nebula (M42) is about 1,350 light years away from us. It is a star formation region ("stellar region") where new stars are being throughout the cloudy areas. The dense colored region is home to the most amount of star formation (star chart overlay).
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Within the dense region of the Nebula, the youngest and brightest stars in the Nebula are thought to be as young as 10,000 years old (about when the Sabre Tooth Tiger went extinct).
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I was able to get this level of detail with only:
Red, Green, Blue: 40 minutes each
Hydrogen Alpha: 1 hour
All captured with my @QHYCCD 268M and Takahashi FSQ-85EDX at 450mm from my balcony in light-polluted downtown Vancouver.
Here is the evolution of my Orion imaging! Like all skills, we get much much better over time with practice, learning, and getting help from others.
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