This was an unplanned image.
Last imaging session, before dawn, I grabbed a single 5min Ha frame and a single 5min Lum frame of the Sword of Orion just to test framing and visual appearence.
Well, I wasn't gioing to do anything with the two subs but I had some old colour data taken with my ED80 aaaand...hey presto, a brief LHaRGB we have!
This is only a small part of the full frame, which fits in the whole sword, unfortunately I didn't have the colour data to fill it all in.
Please enjoy an impromptu peer, deep inside the Orion Nebula
Main Nebula (800k):
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...73608/original
Close up showing all 6 main stars in the Trapezium - plus a few others "within" the trapezium! (200k)
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...97604/original
Here is a comparison with a Hubble shot so you can search out all the fine details:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...21629/original
Sometimes an image can come from nowhere
I plan to grab the rest of the sword to go around this image....just as soon as I get a CLEAR NIGHT
Mike