M42 - The Great Nebula in Orion
1344 light-years away, 24 light-years across, this emission/reflection nebula is one of the brightest in the sky, as well as the closest region of massive star formation to Earth.
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Filename: M42-20141129.jpg
Album name: 27telp / Nebulae
Location and Date: OCA site at Anza, California, 11/29/2014
Equipment: William Optics FLT-132 scope, QSI 583wsg CCD camera, Astro-Physics 1200 GTO mount, Starlight Xpress Lodestar autoguider camera
Settings: Luminance - 5 300-second exposures binned 1x1; Red, Green and Blue - 5x300-sec each, binned 2x2
Notes: Image Capture using MaximDL v5, processing using CCDStack2 and Adobe Photoshop CS4
Filesize: 113 KiB
Date added: Jun 17, 2019
Dimensions: 2048 x 1541 pixels
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