M42 Prime

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It's a popular target, but it never gets old. Although I've visited the Great Orion Nebula (M42) and de Mairan's Nebula (M43) many times before, I believe this is my most detailed capture yet. The data is from two sessions with Stellina taken exactly one year apart on March 4th, 2021, and 2022. I sifted by hand through over 700 10-second captures to cull it down to around 560 of the 'cleanest', stacked it in AstroPixel Processor and processed it in PixInsight.

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Image details

Telescope:		Stellina
Length:		400mm
Aperture:		80mm
F-stop:		f/5.0
Sessions:		2
Captured:		2021-03-04 to 2022-03-04
Lights:		564
Exposure:		10
Total exposure:		1 h
Ra:		5h 34m 58.4s
Dec:		-5° 30' 37.179
Size:		58.843 x 41.257 arcmin
Radius:		0.599 deg
Scale:		0.619 arcsec/pixel