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Philip Good's Astro Photos
Deep Space Astrophotography
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M42 The Orion Nebula and NGC 1977 in Hydrogen Alpha Light
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*** ATWB Astronomy Picture of the Day, 1/24/2007 ***
http://infiniti-eng.com/astrophotos/thumbnails.php?album=search&search=ATWB
http://www.buytelescopes.com/gallery/potd.asp
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of about 1,500 light years away, and is the closest region of star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 30 light years across. Older texts frequently referred to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula.
The Orion Nebula is considered to be one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely-studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula. (wikipedia.org)
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| File information |
| Filename: | M42_Ha_600s.Sum17X.jpg |
| Album name: | goodp / Nebulas |
| Rating (6 votes): | |
| Keywords: | Orion M42 Nebula ATWB SV80S |
| Telescope/Mount: | Stellarvue SV80S: 80mm f-4.8 with Televue 0.8 reducer. Takahashi EM200 Temma-2 Mount |
| CCD: | SBIG ST2000XM with Astrodon 6nm Ha filter |
| Image Details and Processing: | Five hours of Ha images in 10 minute and 30 second subsframes. Captured with CCDSoft and automated with CCD Commander. Processed with CCDSoft, Maxim DL and Photoshop. |
| Date and Location: | Denver, CO. January 8-9, 2007 |
| File Size: | 705 KB |
| Date added: | Jan 09, 2007 |
| Dimensions: | 1600 x 1200 pixels |
| Displayed: | 256 times |
| URL: | http://infiniti-eng.com/astrophotos/displayimage.php?pos=-47 |
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