Deep inside the Great Orion Nebula - now with Hubble comparison
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
Lovely Mike and for such short exposures. I can't wait to see the full image when you get it done.
I have always found M42 a real challenge to image so I may even spend a bit more time on it seeing the last attempt went so well.
If I can work it out I may even mosaic M42 down to the horse.
Cool shot Mike. Certainly a lot of details in the trap. Just looks a bit over sharpened and green to me compared to the rest of the nebula. Other than that the details is beautiful.
Looking good mate.. The field of view there is strangely familiar I posted a shot of M42 around this time last year from my QHY8 + C11 that looked vaguely similar (lacking most of the beautiful detail you've captured)
Cool shot Mike. Certainly a lot of details in the trap. Just looks a bit over sharpened and green to me compared to the rest of the nebula. Other than that the details is beautiful.
Ah perhaps ya right (green) Froggy but remember this was only a second thought image really, scrounged from various data sets so I wasn't exactly trying to make a perfectly balanced image. I wanted to extract as much detail as I could from the limited data, considering, I thought I did an ok job actually . As for the colour..?..I think many Orion cores are too red, the green in there is indeed very strong from OIII so there should in fact be a green influence in my opinion..anyway as I said just having some Sidonio fun
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Originally Posted by Ric
Wonderful image Mike, there is some amazing detail in that closeup.
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Originally Posted by lacad01
Not sure I've seen such clear detail in the core before, that's outstanding
Thanks boys, more in there than I first thought too actually
Ah perhaps ya right (green) Froggy but remember this was only a second thought image really, scrounged from various data sets so I wasn't exactly trying to make a perfectly balanced image. I wanted to extract as much detail as I could from the limited data, considering, I thought I did an ok job actually . As for the colour..?..I think many Orion cores are too red, the green in there is indeed very strong from OIII so there should in fact be a green influence in my opinion..anyway as I said just having some Sidonio fun
Here's the HST shot I always use as a reference. Side by side with yours it's almost the same framing.
Oh my goodness.
but remember this was only a second thought image really, scrounged from various data sets so I wasn't exactly trying to make a perfectly balanced image. I wanted to extract as much detail as I could from the limited data, considering, I thought I did an ok job actually 
. As for the colour..?..I think many Orion cores are too red, the green in there is indeed very strong from OIII so there should in fact be a green influence in my opinion..anyway as I said just having some Sidonio fun 
