| Here is a very short 15
minute exposure of the Great Orion Nebula taken from my driveway. The conditions
were terrible, a fresh snow fall covered the ground, reflecting the
city light up into the sky. With my intended target behind a tree in my
front yard I swung the scope over to Orion to grab a few subs as a test
of how well the Optolong L-eNhance filter worked on this target. Take a
look at the image below to see the answer to that question! According to Wikipedia - The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. It is 1,344 ± 20 light-years (412.1 ± 6.1 pc) away and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2,000 times that of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula. The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features.[8] 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 and brown dwarfs within the nebula, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula. Click on the picture to see a higher resolution of the image, then click again to return to this page. |
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