- Description: The great Orion Nebula! Actually, several nebula are in this image but the bright
part is the Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42. The bloated "comma" to the lower left of centre
of M42 is M43. The grouping of bright blue stars right of M42 is NGC1980, a grouping of about 30 stars
glowing at magnitude 2.5 so both M42 and this cluster are fairly easy in binoculars if you can get away
from city lights. Left of M42 is a bright blue reflection nebula known as NGC1975, one of the easier
reflection nebula to see visuallly. Embedded in this nebula is the open cluster NGC1977, a grouping
of about 20 stars.
- Film: Kodak Gold 400 chilled in a Canda Technologies dry-ice cold camera
- Scope: 8" f6 Newtonian + Deep Sky filter
- Exposure: 2 x 50 Minutes digitally stacked.
- Location: Wilson Coulee Observatory, Alberta
- Date: February 14th and March 3rd 1992
- Notes: These were manually guided and shot through Mt. Pinatubo volcanic haze!
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