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Old 13-02-2015, 07:47 AM
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Trapezium Stars - M 42

I saw this and I asked me: Could I do it also ?

Yes, I can. With Canon.

GSO 305 mm - Canon T3 - 17 frames (0.4 to 1 sec - ISO 800 e 1600) - stacked DSS - UHC filter

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Old 13-02-2015, 05:04 PM
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That's a ripper Jorge. How did you get such magnification?
EP projection?
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Old 14-02-2015, 12:28 AM
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Raymo, my theoretical resolution with my normal set: newtonian telescope GSO 305 mm, coma corrector GSO, spaced by OAG and filter wheel, skyglow filter, Canon T3 is around 0,65"/px. I believe we can think about 0,8" or 1"/px because of RMS oscillation from guiding and refraction.

Therefore, to resolve the cluster and binaries isn't problem. Since I don't use guiding to do it. Only refraction is the problem.

I used the UHC filter, instead skyglow filter. It is new for me, and I don't know exactly what resolution I have with it. Nevertheless, it seems to be very similar to the resolution with skyglow filter.

Why UHC filter ? To enhance the contrast and separation.

The image was croped to Trapezium region and it was magnified only by 1.5x (150 %). The stacked result permited it.

I did around 40 frames, I selected only the best 20 and DSS used only 17. No dark, no flat, no bias. XiDenoiser, NLM mode, was used to clean noises.

To enhance the visibility of faint stars of the cluster I used mask to increase its brightness and contrast.

The nebula was enhanced with sharp 20 pixels 30 % and Legacy Contrast for color. I used mask to act only on it.

The most difficulty was to choose the best time of exposition and ISO. You need sensibility to see the faint stars without saturation of giants ones.
There was no mathematics, it was trying-and-trying with analyse of result and selection one-by-one after.

I didn't get identify the stars H and I.

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Thanks for the comprehensive reply Jorge.
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That's certainly a nice shot of that region.
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Old 18-02-2015, 06:28 AM
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Ok, I found an excellent text about the Trapezium Cluster. It is very very more amazing than I could imagine.

The complete text is in the link: http://www.astropix....MPLE/SAMPLE.HTM - Jerry Lodriguss from the book Astrophotographer's Guide to the Deep Sky

I retrieve some informations that I saw as very important:

It's age is estimated to be less than a million years old and is located at a distance of about 1,337 light-years.

All four main stars are hot class O and B stars.

Trapezium, is a complex star cluster called the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC).
It involves many multiple star systems. There are about 1,000 young, hot stars involved in the cluster.
They are crowded into a space about 4 light-years in diameter.

Most of the stars in the cluster are hidden by dust or in the light of the nebula, but are visible at the infra-red wavelengths.

H is a double. It is separated by about 1.6 arcseconds.

http://jsmastronomy.30143.n7.nabble....d377.html#a380


The Trapezium Multiple Main Star System
http://astronomia-e-astrofotos.10697...3/trapez-1.jpg
Star Magnitude Notes
A 6.72 - 7.65 Eclipsing Binary in 3-star system
B 7.0 - 8.65 Eclipsing Binary in 5-star system
C 5.13 Spectroscopic binary star
D 6.71 Double star
E 11.1 Spectroscopic binary star
F 10.12 Binary star
G 13.68 Single star
H 15.8 Double star
I 16.3 Single star

And from anothers sites we have:
It seems that about half of stars contain evaporating circumstellar disks, a likely precursor to planetary formation.

It is possible that an intermediate mass black hole with a mass >100 times larger than that of the Sun may be present within the Trapezium, something that could explain the large velocity dispersion of the stars of the cluster.
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Old 18-02-2015, 10:52 PM
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I found informations showing that many stars in Orion nebula is actually proto-stars, with circumstellar disk of dense gas surrounding them, called proplyds. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoplanetary_disk).

That is the case of G, H and I.

Image from Hubble of protostars in Orion nebula: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic0917/

Attached we have the Hubble image of G star.

It seems that G were, or yet is, two proto-stars, that is becoming into a single star by stealing the material and/or gas from compainion.

Esa says in http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0917ba/:
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This tadpole-shaped proplyd’s tail is actually a jet of matter flowing away from the excited cusp.
Maybe in the final stage it will be a binary system !

A more complete report I am doing in http://jsmastronomy.30143.n7.nabble....d377.html#a381
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