Orion Nebula

This is the Orion Nebula, also known as M42. It’s a diffuse nebula, containing a mixture of neutral clouds of dust and gas, ionised gas regions, and reflection nebulae. It’s approxmiately 1350 lightyears away.

• Telescope: Skywatcher Classic 250P 10" Dobsonian 1200 FL
• Tracking: Home built 2 circle segment equatorial platform
• Camera: ZWO ASI533MM Pro, CMOS monochrome 3008x3008 3.76μm pixels, 100 gain
• Integration: 200x10s luminance, 50x10s red, 50x10s green, 50x10s blue
• Calibration: 100x10s darks
• Image capture: ASIImg
• Stacking: Siril
• Post-processing: Gimp
• Skies: Almost full moon.

• astrophotography